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Accidents    58 

Accounting   11 

Art,    Civic 2,  5 

Baths   1 

Billboards    1 

Bridges    2 

Budget-Making    H 

Celebrations,   Civic 3 

Charities 3>  53 

Charters   9»  17 

Child  Welfare 3 

Citizenship    17 

City   Planning    5 

Cleaning,  City 20 

Commercial    Organizations..  8 

Commission   Government 9 

Courts    4 

Culverts 2 

Dances.   Folk 42 

Docks 63 

Elections    9 

Engineering    41 

Exhibits    10 

Festivals,   Public    3 

Finance,    Municipal H 

Fire   Loss  and  Protection..  14 

Flies 29 

Food    Inspection 20 

Franchises 39 

Garbage  Disposal 20 

Garden  Cities 5 

Gardens   •  •  16 

Gas  Standards   40 

General  Books 17 

Government,   Municipal 9 

Harbors 63 

Health,  Public   20 

Highway    Engineering 45 

Hospitals 24 

Housing 25 

Infant  Mortality   20 

Initiative   27 

Insect  Extermination   29 

Insurance,  Workmen's 54 

Landscape    Architecture.  ...  30 

Law,  Municipal   32 

Libraries    34 

Lighting 35 


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Markets 

Milk,   Pure    

Mosquitoes    29 

Motion   Pictures 45 

Municipal    Ownership 36 

Noise,    Unnecessary 37 

Nursing,  Visiting 57 

Ordinances,  Municipal 32 

Pageantry    3 

Parks   38 

Pavements     4 

Playgrounds    

Police 

Preferential  Voting    

Proportional    Representation  10 

Public  Utilities    39 

Public  Works 41 

Recall    [  27 

Recreation 4? 

Referendum    27 

Roads 45 

Sanitation    20 

Schools 4£ 

Sewage    Disposal 6] 

Short    Ballot    c. 

Signs,   Street    1 

Single  Tax   n 

Smoke  Nuisance    52 

Social  Centers   55 

Social   Evil   53 

Social  Welfare    53 

-  Story  Telling   5,   44 

Street    Cleaning    20 

Streets    45 

Swimming  Pools    .  . 

Taxation    

Textbooks  on  Civi' 
Traffic,  Street   ... 

Trees   

Tuberculosis    ...  ... 

Viaducts    2 

Vocational    Education    51 

Voting  Systems   9 

Waste  Disposal    61 

Water  Fronts 63 

Water   Supply    64 

Woman  Suffrage 66 

Women's  Civic  Work GC> 


The  classification  is  by  subjects,  with  an  alphabetical  arrangement 
by  authors  under  each  subject  head.  The  prices  quoted  include 
postage.  Free  publications  are  entered  at  a  nominal  charge  of 
10  cents  to  cover  expense  of  ordering  and  mailing.  Government 
publication  should  be  ordered  direct  from  the  Government  Printing 
Office,  Washington,  D.  C.  Of  the  400  books  listed  nearly  275  have 
been  published  within  the  last  four  years.  Pamphlets  have  been 
listed  only  for  a  few  subjects  on  which  the  book  literature  appears 
inadequate.  The  list  is  kept  up  to  date  in  the  review  columns  01: 
The  American   City. 


BRIDGES,   Continued— CELEBRATIONS— CHILD  WELFARE 

save  time  for  the  practicing  engineer,  for  whom  the  book  is  in- 
tended. The  designs  and  data  tables  for  culverts  and  trestles  are 
original  with  the  author  and  are  here  presented  for  the  first  time. 
They  are  the  result  of  his  own  practice  in  the  design  and  con- 
struction of  railroad   structures. 

Tyrrell,  Henry  Grattan. 

History  of  Bridge  Engineering.     191 1.     480  pp. 

330  illustrations.  %  $4.00 

This  book  prevents  a  history  of  ancient,  mediaeval  and  modern 
bridge-building,  tracing  the  later  development  by  types — stone, 
pontoon,  aqueduct,  wooden,  cast-iron  and  steel.  Different  types 
of  design  of  steel  bridges — truss,  tubular  and  plate  girder,  sus- 
pension, cantilever,  arch,  trestle  and  viaduct — are  discussed.  The 
last  two  chapters  are  devoted  to  solid  and  reinforced  concrete 
bridges.  Statistics  and  cost  details  are  given  in  many  instances. 
About  2,000  bridges  are  noticed.  Theory  and  methods  of  de- 
sign   are   purposely    omitted. 


Celebrations,    Civic,    Including 
Pageantry 

See  also  Recreation  and  Social  Centers 

Bates,  Esther  Willard. 

Pageants  and  Pageantry. 

1912.    294  pp.     Illustrated.  $1.25 

Designed  for  the  use  of  schools  and  colleges.  The  book  con- 
tains six  chapters  on  the  staging,  costuming,  organizing,  sources 
and  writing  of  amateur  pageants  and  plays;  also  five  specimen 
pageants,  comprising  scenes  from  different  periods  in  Roman, 
mediaeval,  English  and  American  colonial  history,  with  directions 
for  their  reproduction  with  limited  stage  settings.  There  is  also 
much  other  dramatic  material  in  the  volume,  with  songs  from 
various  periods  and  directions  for  ancient  dances.  A  few  speci- 
men tables  of  expense  have  been  contributed  by  leading  pageant 
masters. 

Mackay,  Constance  D'Arcy. 

Patriotic  Plays  and  Pageants  for  Young  People. 
1912.    223  pp.  $1.46 

Comprises  three  pageants:  Pageant  of  Patriotism  (outdoor); 
the  same  for  indoors;  Hawthorne  Pageant  (both  outdoor  and  in- 
door). Portions  of  these  pageants  are  separate,  one-act  plays 
especially  suitable  for  separate  performance  in  school,  home  or 
small  theater.  Simple  directions  for  costumes,  scenes  and  staging. 
All    suitable   for   settlements,    special   festivals,   etc. 

Needham,  Mary  Master. 

Folk  Festivals:    Their  Growth  and  How  to  Give 
Them.    1912.    xi  -f  244  pp.  $i-35 

Teachers,  social  workers  and  civic  organizations — whoever  is 
concerned  with  the  preparation  of  festivals,  celebrations  and 
pageants — will  find  this  book  a  guide  and  friend.  It  contains  the 
fruit  of  much  experience;  it  provides  practical  suggestions  for 
all  seasons,  and  it  is  full  of  real  inspiration.  An  excellent 
bibliography  will  prove  useful  to  those  who  may  wish  to  pursue 
their  study  of  folk  festivals  beyond  the  limits  of  this  book. 


Child   Welfare 

See  also  Recreation,  Schools,  Social  Research  and 
Service,  Social  Centers 

Breckinridge,  Sophonisba  P.,  and 
Abbott,  Edith. 

The  Delinquent  Child  and  the  Home. 

1912.    x  -f  355  pp.    30  tables.  $2.00 

This  is  a  study  of  the  work  of  the  Juvenile  Court  of  Cook 
County,  Illinois,  undertaken  with  the  idea  of  gaining  a  more 
thorough  knowledge  of  the  needs  of  all  children,  and  of  extend- 
ing the  usefulness  of  the  Court.  It  tells  of  immigrant  children, 
of  the  poverty-stricken,  the  orphan  and  the  homeless,  the  ignor- 
ant and  the  unmanageable;  the  children  without  play  and  those 
from  degraded  and  crowded  homes.  The  appendices  contain  val- 
uable material,  including  two  chapters  of  "family  paragraphs,"  or 
summarized  statements  about  the  homes  and  families  and  offenses 
of  150   delinquent  boys  and   girls. 


CHILD   WELFARE— Continued 

Chicago  School  of  Civics  and  Philanthropy. 

The  Child  in  the  City.  1912.  xiii  +  502  pp.  11 
illustrations.  $1.66 

The  papers  presented  in  this  volume  were  read  at  the  con- 
ferences held  during  the  Chicago  Child  Welfare  Exhibit,  May  11- 
25,  1911.  They  are  a  real  contribution  to  the  discussion  of  the 
unsatisfied  claims  of  childhood  upon  the  modern  community. 

0 

Chicago  School  of  Civics  and  Philanthropy. 

Finding  Employment  for  Children  Who  Leave 
the  Grade  Schools  to  Go  to  Work.  191 1.  56 
pp.  25  cents 

Report  to  the  Chicago  Woman's  Club,  the  Chicago  Association 
of  Collegiate  Alumnae  and  the  Woman's  City  Club.  The  contents 
are:  "The  School  and  the  Working-Child:  A  Plea  for  Employ- 
ment Supervision  in  City  Schools,"  by  Sophonisba  P.  Brecken- 
ridge  and  Edith  Abbott;  "Preliminary  Report  on  Opportunities 
of  Employment  in  Chicago  Open  to  Girls  Under  Sixteen,"  by 
Anne  S.  Davis;  "Public  Care  of  Working-Children  in  England 
and  Germany:  Some  Notes  on  Juvenile  Labour  Exchanges  by 
Edith  Abbott;"  "Trade  and  Technical  Classes  for  Girls  in  Chi- 
cago;" "Selected  Bibliography  Relating  to  Employment  Super- 
vision." 

Clopper,  Edward  N. 

Child  Labor  in  City  Streets.  1912.  280  pp.  Illus- 
trated. $1.33 

The  American  taxpayer  worships  economy,  but  he  spends  two 
hundred  dollars  to  save  himself  one  hundred.  He  allows  a  small 
boy  to  work  in  the  street  so  as  to  earn  about  a  hundred  dollars  a 
year,  because  he  forgets,  or  doesn't  know,  that  sixty  per  cent  of 
all  delinquent  boys  come  from  the  street  trades  and  every  de- 
linquent child  costs  the  state  at  least  two  hundred  dollars  a  year, 
ii.  the  boy  is  an  orphan  or  the  son  of  a  poor  widow  (only  a 
small  percentage  are)  it  would  be  cheaper  to  give  him  a  pension 
than  to  train  him  in  crime. 

This  is  one  of  the  many  startling  facts  brought  out  in  this 
volume. 

Coulter,  Ernest  K. 

The  Children  in  the  Shadow. 

(Introduction  by  Jacob  A.  Riis.)  1913.  xvii  +  277 
pp.     Illustrated.  $1.65 

Mr.  Coulter  was  clerk  of  the  largest  children's  court  in  the 
world  and  the  founder  of  the  Big  Brother  Movement,  which  has 
spread  to  more  than  forty  cities.  His  unprecedented  experience 
gives  him  an  unusual  authority.  This  book  is  a  large  "slice  of 
life,"  full  of  pathos  and  hope  and  good  humor.  It  is  a  stirring 
appeal  for  the  neglected  citizen  of  to-morrow. 

Hart,  Hastings  H.,  Editor. 

Juvenile  Court  Laws  in  the  United  States:  Sum- 
marized.    191 0.     160  pp.  $1.60 

Part  I  is  a  summary  of  juvenile  court  legislation  of  the  United 
States  through  1908,  and  later  revised  to  cover  the  legislation  of 
1909.  _  Part  II  is  a  topical  abstract  of  the  state  laws  governing 
the  trial  and  disposition  of  juvenile  offenders,  covering  legislation 
in  force  at  the  close  of  1909.  Part  III  contains  a  juvenile-court 
law  which  may  serve  as  a  model  for  other  juvenile-court  legisla- 
tion. 

Holmes,  Arthur,  Assistant  Director  of  the  Psycho- 
logical Clinic ;  Assistant  Professor  of  Psychology, 
University  of  Pennsylvania.  # 

The  Conservation  of  the  Child.     19 12.     345   pp. 

37  illustrations.  $1.35 

Covering  the  practical  application  of  established  principles  in 
the  inauguration  and  operation  of  a  psychological  clinic.  Val- 
uable to  anyone  interested  in  child  welfare.  Containing  tests 
and  measurements  applicable  to  diagnosing  special  children.  The 
material  is  arranged  topically,  and  is  clear  and  interesting.  The 
illustrations  are  most  illuminating.  Many  definite  cases  are  de- 
scribed in  a  way  which  emphasizes  the  sociological  importance 
of  the  psychological  clinic. 

National  Child  Labor  Committee. 

Child  Labor  and  Education.  Vol.  I.,  No.  1.  (June, 
1912),  of  The  Child  Labor  Bulletin.  $1.00 

The  magazine  is  a  quarterly,  price  $2  per  year.  This  number 
contains  the  papers  and  proceedings  of  the  Eighth  Annual  Con- 
ference on  Child  Labor. 


CHILD    WELFARE,    Continued— CITY    PLANNING 

National  Child  Labor  Committee. 

Child  Labor  Laws  in  All  the  States.  Vol.  J., 
No.  2.  (August,  1912.)  The  Child  Labor  Bulletin. 
126  pp.  50  cents 

A  summary  of  the  child-labor  and  compulsory-education  laws 
of  all  the  states,  simply  and  briefly  arranged  by  states.  Con- 
taining also  draft  of  the  Uniform  Law,  several  articles  on  street 
trades  regulation,  and  one  on  the  enforcement  of  child-labor  laws 
from  a  special  field  study  by  Charles  L.  Chute. 

National  Child  Labor  Committee. 

Child  Workers  in  the  Tenements.  1912.  47  pp. 
Illustrated.  10  cents 

A  vivid  presentation  of  a  serious  problem  that  affects  public 
health,  legitimate  standards  of  business  interests,  and  the  health, 
education  and  morals  of  little  children,  and  should  therefore  be 
of  deep  concern  to  every  citizen. 

Neil,  Henry. 

Fighting  for  the  Welfare  of  Our  Little  Men  and 
Women.     1912.    320  pp.     150  illustrations.        $2.26 

A  handbook  describing  the  efforts  being  made  for  the  welfare 
of  children,  particularly  in  reference  to  their  play.  The  author 
is  responsible  for  the  Mothers'  New  Pension  Law  of  Illinois. 

Ogburn,  William   F.,   Ph.   D.,  Instructor  in   History, 
Politics  and  Economics,  Princeton  University. 
Progress  and  Uniformity  in  Child-Labor  Legis- 
lation.    1912.    219  pp.    Many  tables.  $1.83 

Covering  the  field  of  child-labor  legislation  through  about  one- 
third  of  a  century.  It  is  a  statistical  description,  giving  detailed 
information  regarding  each  state,  and  measuring  the  progress 
and  the  uniformity  of  legislation  on  child  labor. 

Partridge,    Emelyn    Newcomb,    Story-Teller    for    the 

Worcester   (1910)    Playgrounds,  and 
Partridge,  George  Everett,  Ph.  D. 

Story-Telling  in  School  and  Home. 

Illustrated.  $1.25 

A  great  feature  of  this  volume  is  its  comprehensiveness.  It 
contains  the  material  needed  and  what  should  be  known  about 
it.  It  combines  the  stories  themselves,  of  varied  types  ready  for 
the  telling,  and  just  the  information  the  narrator  wants  con- 
cerning these  stories,  and,  too,  concerning  the  way  to  tell  them 
in  order  to  seize  and  hold  fast  the  attention  of  young  audiences. 
The  book  is  designed  to  help  both  teachers  and  parents.  It  is 
written  by  veterans  in  the  story-telling  field,  and  is  informed 
with  a  spirit  of  broad  culture  and  exacting  taste,  and  with  a 
trained  insight  into  the  psychology  of  young  people. 


City  Planning  and  Replanning,   In= 

eluding  Congestion  of  Popu= 

lation,  etc. 

See  also  Garden   Cities,   Housing,    Landscape  Ar= 
chitecture,  Roads  and  Streets,  etc. 

Information  in  regard  to  published  plans  for  indi- 
vidual places  will  be  furnished  on  request.  The  list  of 
such  reports  is  too  long  to  be  added  to  that  of  the  gen- 
eral books  on  city  planning  here  given. 

Bibliography. 

Check  List  of  References  on  City  Planning.  .  1912. 
I23  PP-  25  cents 

Compiled  by  the  Division  of  Bibliography,  Library  of  Congress, 
and  the  Department  of  Landscape  Architecture,  Harvard  Uni- 
versity, under  the  editorial  direction  of  H.  H.  B.  Meyer,  Chief 
Bibliographer,  Library  of  Congress.  It  is  the  May,  1912,  issue  of 
Special  Libraries.  It  is  published  preliminary  to  the  "Bibliog- 
raphy of  City  Planning,"  in  preparation  by  the  same  authorities. 
Though  incomplete,  this  list  is  of  practical  value  to  libraries,  pro- 
fessional city  planners,  and  to  students  of  the  subject.  The 
a!rra?gement  material  by  localities  represented  gives  a  view 
of  the  extent  of  the  city  planning  movement. 


CITY  PLANNING— Continued 

Bentley,  E.  G.,  LL.  B.,  and 

Taylor,  S.  P.,  A.  R.  I.  B.  A. 

Housing,  Town  Planning,  Etc.,  Act  1909.  A  Prac- 
tical Guide  in  the  Preparation  of  Town  Planning 
Schemes.  (Published  in  England.)  1911.  xvi  -f- 
159  pp.    Duty  extra.  $i'35 

With  a  Foreword  by  R.  Unwin;  with  appendices  containing  the 
text  of  the  Act;  also  specimen  forms  of  notices  and  a  model  set 
of  colored  plans.  Explaining,  "step  by  step,  in  simple  and  under- 
standable language,  exactly  what  should  be  done  and  can  be  done 
to  make  the  Act  effective." 

Canadian  Housing  and  Town  Planning  Congress. 
The  First  Canadian  Housing  and  Town  Planning 
Congress.     (Held  in  Winnipeg,  Canada,  July  15-17, 
1912.)     1913.     123  pp.  10  cents 

Containing,  besides  opening  addresses,  the  following  papers: 
"Some  Architectural  Aspects  of  Town  Planning,"  by  Raymond 
Unwin;  "Some  Observations  on  the  British  Town  Planning  Act," 
by  Thomas  Adams,  Town  Planning  Assistant  to  the  Local  Govern- 
ment Board,  London,  England;  "Transit  and  Town  Planning,"  by 
John  P.  Fox,  Secretary  Transit  Committee,  City  Club  of  New 
York;  "Some  City  Planning  Problems  in  the  Prairie  Cities,"  by 
Malcolme  W.  Ross,  Regina,  Sask.;  "The  Housing  Problem,"  by 
Charles  A.  Hodgetts,  Medical  Adviser  to  the  Commissioner  of 
Conservation,  Ottawa,  Canada;  "The  Tenement  House  Question," 
by  Dr.  M.  Seymour,  Commissioner  of  Public  Health  for  Sas- 
katchewan; "Housing  as  It  Affects  the  Community,"  by  Mrs.  Al- 
bion Fellows  Bacon,  Secretary  Indiana  Housing  Association; 
"Housing  and  Town  Planning,"  by  His  Royal  Highness,  the  Duke 
of  Connaught,  Governor  General  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada: 
"The  Essential  Elements  of  City  Planning,"  by  Guy  Wilfrid 
Hayler;  "The  Social  Aspect  of  Town  Planning,"  by  James  Ford, 
of  the  Department  of  Social  Ethics,  Harvard  University;  "Prime 
Considerations  of  Town  Planning."  by  Frederick  Law  Olmsted; 
"The  City  Beautiful,"  by  Louis  Betz,  St.  Paul,  Minn.;  "Some 
of  the  Fundamental  Problems  of  Town  Planning,"  by  B.  Antrim 
Haldeman,  Town  Planning  Engineer,  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  "The 
Bane  of  the  Gridiron,"  by  Arthur  A.  Shurtleff,  Landscape  Ar- 
chitect, Boston;  "Beautifying  the  City,"  by  L.  J.  Boughner,  Edi- 
tor Minneapolis  Tribune;  "Financial  Aspects  of  Town  Planning," 
by  C.  B.  Whitnall,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Glen,  Randolph  A.,  M.  A.,  LL.  B.,  Chairman,  Town 
Planning  Committee,  Acton  Urban  District  Coun- 
cil, and 
Dean,  Arthur  D.,   Member  National  Advisory  Town 
Planning  Committee. 
The  Law  and  Practice  of  Town  Planning.  (Pub- 
lished in  England.)     Duty  extra.  $3*87 

The  authors  of  this  book  have  in  addition  to  their  legal  quali- 
fications as  Barrister-at-Law  of  the  Middle  Temple  and  Western 
Circuit,  and  Solicitor  of  the  Supreme  Court,  respectively,  the  ad- 
vantage of  personal  practical  experience  with  town  planning 
schemes.  The  work  contains:  the  English  law  relating  to  town 
planning;  the  practice  and  procedure  adopted  when  scientific  town 
planning  schemes  are  in  contemplation;  fifty  model  clauses  for 
town  planning  schemes;  an  outline  of  improvement  and  other 
housing  schemes;  an  account  of  the  progress  of  town  planning  in 
other   countries. 

McVey,    Frank    L.,    President    of    the    University    of 
North  Dakota. 
The  Making  of  a  Town.    1913.    221  pp.  $1.09 

This  is  the  book  of  the  small  town — its  difficulties  and  some 
ways  to  overcome  them.  Two  chapters  bearing  the  titles  "Town 
Huilding  and  Cooperation"  and  "The  Planning  of  the  Town"  are 
followed  by  four  chapters  on  the  fundamentals  of  health,  schools, 
morals  and  business.  The  remaining  chapters  discuss  "The ^En- 
trance to  the  Town;"  "Government  and  Administration;"  "Or- 
ganizations  and  What  They  Can  Do  for  the  Town;"  "Advertising 
the  Town;"  and  "The  Future  of  the  Town."  References  for 
further  reading  on  each  of  these  topics  are  listed  at  the  end  of 
the  volume. 

Marsh,  Benjamin  G,  Secretary  of  the  Committee  on 
Congestion  of  Population  in  New  York  City. 
An  Introduction  to  City  Planning.    158  pp.    Illus- 
trated. $1.00 

A  brief  summary  of  city  planning  in  America  and  foreign 
countries.  Contains  nearly  fifty  maps,  plans  and  photographs 
illustrative  of  city  planning  throughout  the  world,  and  transla- 
tions of  many   foreign  laws  on   city   planning. 


CITY  PLANNING— Continued 

Mawson,  Thomas  H.,  Lecturer  on  Landscape  Design, 
University  of  Liverpool. 
Civic  Art.    375  pp.    2  colored  plates.    275  drawings 
and  photographs.  $20.00 

Studies  in  town  planning,  in  parks,  boulevards  and  open  spaces. 
Mr.  Mawson  is  a  leader  of  thought  on  town  planning. 

National  Conference  on  City  Planning. 
Proceedings  of 
Rochester,  N.  Y.  (1910),  Conference.         $1.50 
Philadelphia  (191 1)  Conference.  $1.50 

Boston  (1912)  Conference.  $2.00 

Papers  by  experts  on  problems  relating  to  all  phases  of  city 
planning. 

Nichols,  J.  C. 

Real  Estate  Subdivisions — The  Best  Manner  of 
Handling  Them.  (Published  by  the  American 
Civic  Association.  Series  II,  No.  5.)  November, 
1912.     15  pp.  25  cents 

An  address  delivered  at  the  fifth  annual  convention  of  the 
National  Association  of  Real  Estate  Exchanges  at  Louisville,  Ky., 
June  20,  1912.  The  author  tells  of  the  actual  development  by 
himself  of  a  tract  of  more  than  1,000  acres — "The  Country  Club 
District"  of  Kansas  City,  Mo. — into  an  ideal  residential  section. 
"Representing,"  says  the  American  Civic  Association,  "eight  years 
of  actual  execution,  according  to  a  plan,  and  the  introduction  of 
modern  ideas  in  'saving  hills  and  dales'  in  the  laying  out  of 
streets;  in  the  best  in  .the  planting  of  trees;  in  the  illumination 
of  streets;  in  the  subdivision  into  lots;  in  wise  legislation  for  the 
development  of  the  property;  and  in  safeguarding  by  regulations 
and  restrictions  the  interests  of  all  those  who  are  induced  to 
become  home-owners  in  the  District." 

Nolen,  John. 

Replanning  Small  Cities.  1912.  218  pp.  46  illus- 
trations. $2.70 

Six  typical  studies  as  follows:  Roanoke,  A  Small  City  of  the 
New  South;  San  Diego,  A  Pacific  Coast  Resort  and  Future  Sea- 
port; Montclair,  A  Residence  Town  Suburban  to  New  York: 
Glen  Ridge,  A  Model  Borough  in  New  Jersey;  Reading,  A  Small 
Industrial  City;  Madison,  A  State  Capital  and  University  Town; 
with  introductory  chapter  entitled,  "The  Planning  of  Small 
Cities,  A  General  Survey";  and  closing  chapter,  "Existing  Cities, 
How  They  May  Be  Replanned." 

Pray,  James  Sturgis,  Chairman,  School  of  Landscape 
Architecture,  Harvard  University,  and 

Kimball,   Theodora,   Librarian,    School    of   Landscape 
Architecture,  Harvard  University. 
City  Planning.     1913.    103  pp.  $1.00 

A  comprehensive  analysis  of  the  subject  arranged  for  the  clas- 
sification of  books,  plans,  photographs,  notes  and  other  collected 
material;    with  alphabetic   subject   index. 

Robinson,  Charles  Mulford. 

The  Improvement  of  Towns  and  Cities. 

313  pp.    Illustrated.  $1.35 

Showing  the  different  ways  in  which  civic  beauty  may  be  ob- 
tained, and  that  many  lines  of  work  may  combine  to  produce  a 
harmonious  result.  It  treats  of  civic  beauty  in  relation  to  city 
sites,  to  city  planning  and  construction.  Perhaps  the  most  in- 
teresting section  of  the  book  is  the  one  dealing  with  beauty  in 
the  street  and  telling  what  has  been  done  to  conceal  wiring,  to 
abolish  smoke  and  noise  and  ugly  advertising,  to  secure  esthetic 
and  harmonious  house-fronts  and  street  furnishings,  to  plant  and 
preserve  graceful,  strong  trees,  and  with  grass  and  flower  and 
vine  to  set  the  country  in  the  city. 

Robinson,  Charles  Mulford. 

Modern  Civic  Art.  381  pp.  30  full-page  illus- 
trations. $3.25 

A  comprehensive  discussion  of  the  artistic  side  of  city  better- 
ment:   what  the  approaches  by  land  and  water  should  express  and 


CITY  PLANNING,  Cont.— COMMERCIAL  ORGANIZATIONS 

reveal  of  the  city's  character  and  importance;  how  concentration 
of  the  chief  government  buildings,  properly  treated,  should  form 
the  climax  of  the  city's  distinction;  how  beauty  and  dignity  may 
be  attained  in  the  business  section  of  a  city,  and  how  home  sur- 
roundings  of  rich  and  poor  may  be  made  comfortable,  refined  and 
beautiful. 

Robinson,  Charles  Mulford. 

The  Width  and  Arrangement  of  Streets.  (See 
Roads,  Streets  and  Pavements.) 

Town  Planning  Conference,  London,  October,  1910. 
Transactions,      xx   -f-  812.      Profusely   illustrated 
with  photographs,  maps  and  diagrams.     Duty  ex- 
tra. $5.00 

The  volume  is  divided  into  three  parts.  The  first  contains  the 
record  of  the  Conference.  In  this  portion  is  given  a  complete 
list  of  the  delegates,  an  account  of  the  various  visits  and  ex- 
cursions which  they  made,  the  addresses  of  the  inaugural  meet- 
ing and  the  speeches  of  the  banquet.  The  second  part  contains 
the  papers  and  discussions  of  the  Conference.  These  cover  a 
very  wide  range  of  topics  discussed  for  the  most  part  by  the 
leading  experts  of  all  countries.  The  papers  are  printed  in  the 
language  in  which  they  were  written,  with  English  translations 
appended  to  all  those  which  were  in  foreign  tongues.  Part  Three 
is  made  up  of  "Notes  on  the  Exhibits"  of  the  really  remarkable 
exhibition,  which  was  housed  in  the  Royal  Academy.  These  notes 
were  prepared  by  H.  V.  Lanchester  and  Raymond  Unwin. 

Triggs,  H.  Inigo. 

Town  Planning,  Past,  Present  and  Possible,    ix 

+  334  PP-  *73  illustrations.  (Published  in  Eng- 
land.) $5.48 

The  author  spent  several  years  studying  the  methods  of  such 
cities  as  Paris,  Berlin,  Munich  and  Vienna.  It  deals  with  traffic 
problems,  planning  of  streets,  town  expansion  and  development  of 
suburbs. 

Unwin,  Raymond. 

Town  Planning  in  Practice.  An  Introduction  to 
the  Art  of  Designing  Cities  and  Suburbs.  Quarto. 
xxii  +  424  pp.  Over  300  illustrations.  (Published 
in  England.)  $6.48 

The  author  preserves  a  careful  balance  between  artistic  and 
practical  considerations.  Among  the  topics  treated  are:  Civic 
Art  as  the  Expression  of  Civic  Life;  Centres  and  Enclosed 
Spaces;  Arrangement  of  Main  Roads:  Site  Planning  and  Resi- 
dential Roads;    Cooperation   in   Site   Planning. 

Waterhouse,  Paul,  M.  A.,  and 

Unwin,  Raymond,  F.  R.  I.  B.  A. 

Old  Towns  and  New  Needs.  Also  the  Town  Ex- 
tension Plan.  (Being  the  Warburton  Lectures  for 
1912,  Manchester  University,  Manchester,  England.) 
1912.    62  pp.    9  illustrations.  40  cents 

Two  lectures,  the  first,  by  Mr.  Waterhouse,  on  the  duties  of  a 
town  planner  in  an  old  city;  the  second,  by  Mr.  Unwin,  on  the 
plotting  of  suburbs  around  existing  towns. 


Commercial      Organizations,      Civic 
Work  Of 

The  Central  Association  of  Commercial  Secretaries. 
Proceedings  of  the  Fourth  Annual  Convention 
of  the  Association,  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  Septem- 
ber 20-21,  1912.    1913.    71  pp.  50  cents 

This  is  more  than  the  minutes  of  a  meeting.  It  contains  talks 
between  commercial  secretaries  on  their  mistakes;  direct  criticisms 
on  some  commercial  club  methods,  and  papers  on  various  munici- 
pal questions,  such  as  the  street  railway  problem,  the  commission 
form  of  government,  the  mayor's  cabinet,  etc.,  besides  a  discus- 
sion of  the  relation  between  commercial  and  agricultural  develop- 


COMMERCIAL     ORGANIZATIONS,     Cont.—COM'N     GOV'T. 

Clay,  S.  H.,   Secretary  of  the  Lexington    (Kentucky) 
Commercial  Club. 
City  Building.     1913.     164  pp.  $5.00 

The  purpose  of  the  book  is  to  help  commercial  secretaries  to 
work  along  progressive  lines  in  making  cities  better  places  in  which 
to  live  and  do  business.  It  takes  up  ways  of  keeping  a  commer- 
cial organization  alive  and  growing;  various  plans  of  locating  in- 
dustries; securing,  organizing,  financing  and  entertaining  con- 
ventions; extensions  of  wholesale  and  retail  trade;  street  build- 
ing and  cleaning;  transportation;  the  City  Beautiful;  the  relation 
of  the  schools  to  the  industrial  interests  of  the  city;  government 
by  commission;  good  roads;  the  relation  of  the  city  to  the  agri- 
cultural   community. 


Commission  Government,  Short  Bal= 
lot  and  Proportional  Representation 

See  also  General  Books  on  Municipal  Government 

and  Good  Citizenship;  Initiative  Referen= 

dum  and  Recall 

American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science. 
Commission  Government  in  American  Cities. 
191 1.    284  pp.  Paper  covers,  $1.00;  cloth,  $1.50 

Thirty  articles  by  authorities  on  this  subject,  arranged  under 
the  following  divisions:  Underlying  Principles  and  Typical 
Plans;  Problems  of  Commission  Government;  Objections,  Limita- 
tions and  Modifications  of  the  Commission  Plan;  Results  of 
Commission  Government  in  Typical  Cities. 

Beard,   Charles   A.,  Associate    Professor   of   Politics, 
Columbia  University,  Editor. 
The  Loose-Leaf  Digest  of  Short  Ballot  Charters. 
400  +  pp.  $5.00 

A  living  cyclopedia  of  the  commission  government  movement. 
The  largest  work  on  the  subject — larger  than  all  others  put 
together;  the  most  complete — covering  the  history,  legal  develop- 
ment, theory  and  the  present-day  practical  workings  of  the  reform 
in  the  various  cities,  and  giving  text  or  digest  of  the  law  in  32 
states.  An  up-to-date  work — all  non-loose-leaf  books  on  com- 
mission government  are  out  of  date  before  they  can  reach  the 
public,  so  rapidly  does  this  movement  progress.  Embodying  the 
work  of  fifty  contributors  and  a  year  of  preparation  and  compila- 
tion of  facts. 

Bradford,  Ernest  S.,  Ph.  D. 

Commission  Government  in  American  Cities. 

191 1.  xiv  +  359  PP.  $i.35 

This  work  is  especially  suited  to  the  requirements  of  the 
average  citizen,  giving  him  in  compact  form  the  essential  facts  of 
the  history  and  development  of  the  commission  idea  as  applied 
to  city  government.  It  further  partakes  of  the  character  of  a 
textbook  in  that  much  space  is  devoted  to  the  development  of 
details  in  city  management  under  the  new  system. 

Bruere,  Henry. 

The  New  City  Government. 

1912.  xxii  -f  438  pp.    10  tables.  $1.62 

Based  on  an  administrative  survey  of  ten  cities  made  by  the 
author  and  William  Shepherdson  for  the  Metz  Fund  of  the 
Bureau  of  Municipal  Research,  New  York,  in  1911.  The  facts 
presented  have  been  gleaned  from  public  records  and  reports, 
and  from  interviews  with  public  officials.  The  book  is  intended 
to  be  "of  service  to  municipal  officials  who  are  now  called  upon 
to  render  efficient  service  without  the  instruments  of  efficiency." 

Childs,  Richard  S. 

Short  Ballot  Principles.    191 1.    171  pp.  $1.09 

One  of  the  most  readable  books  ever  written  on  American 
political  problems.  Expressing  the  personal  opinions  of  the 
author,  who  is  the  Executive  Secretary  of  the  National  Short- 
Ballot  Organization. 


COMMISSION    GOVERNMENT,    Cont.— EXHIBITS 

Humphreys,  John  H. 

Proportional  Representation. 

1911.    xxi  +400  pp.    (Published  in  England.)  $1.50 

This  volume  analyzes  the  results  of  English  electoral  methods; 
contrasts  the  working  of  the  second  ballot,  the  alternative  vote 
and  proportional  representation;  describes  the  systems  of  elec- 
tion which  obtain  in  several  Continental  countries,  in  Tasmania 
and  in  South  Africa;  and  discusses  the  effects  of  proportional 
representation  upon  the  party  system  and  its  bearing  upon  the 
relations  between  the  two  Houses  of  Parliament. 

McGregor,  Ford  H.,  Instructor  in  Political  Science  at 

the  University  of  Wisconsin. 

City  Government  by  Commission.     (Bulletin  No. 

423  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin.)      191 1.     151 

pp.  40  cents 

A  comprehensive  outline  of  the  advantages  and  shortcomings 
of  the  commission  plan,  particularly  in  the  Middle  West.  Con- 
servative in  tone,  readable,  and  contains  a  good  bibliography. 

Woodruff,   Clinton   Rogers,   Secretary   National   Mu- 
nicipal League,  Editor. 
City   Government  by   Commission. 
191 1.    381  pp.  $1.62 

Several  of  the  chapters  comprise  papers  presented  to  the 
National  Municipal  League  by  experts  and  investigators  who 
have  made  a  study  of  the  various  phases  of  commission  govern- 
ment and  other  forms  of  city  charters.  Another  chapter  con- 
tains an  article  prepared  by  the  chairman  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee, Prof.  Albert  Bushnell  Hart,  the  rest  of  the  book  being 
the  work  of  Mr.  Woodruff  himself.  The  chapter  entitled  "The 
Growth  of  the  Movement"  contains  a  list  of  156  cities  having 
some  form  of  a  commission  government,  with  population  and 
date  of  adoption  of  the  charter.  Distinctive  features  of  various 
state  laws  and  local  charters  are  pointed  out.  The  chapter  on 
"The  Des  Moines  Plan"  contains  the  Des  Moines  charter  com- 
plete. 


Exhibits 

Chicago  City  Club. 

Guide  to  the  City  Club  Housing  Exhibition,  April 
15  to  June  1,  1913.    55  PP-    Illustrated.        15  cents 

This  pamphlet  is'  of  value  to  those  who  are  making  an  analytical 
study  of  the  subject  of  housing,  especially  for  exhibit  purposes. 

Child  Hygiene  Association  of  Philadelphia. 

The  Report  of  the  Philadelphia  Baby-Saving 
Show,  May  18-26,  1912.  (Edited  by  the  Publica- 
tion Committee ;  published  by  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee.)    1913.    270  pp.  Illustrated.  $1.00 

The  organization,  exhibition  methods,  and  the  plan  of  financ- 
ing the  Show  are  given  in  detail,  with  descriptions  of  the  various 
exhibits,  fifty  half-tone  plates  of  important  features,  and  typo- 
graphical reproductions  of  all  reading  matter  appearing  in  the 
charts,  tables  and  legends.  The  proceedings  of  the  Conference  on 
Infant  Hygiene,  which  was  held  in  conjunction  with  the  Baby- 
Saving  Show,  are  given  in  full.  The  subjects  treated  were  dis- 
cussed by  some  of  the  best  authorities  in  this  country.  The  finan- 
cial statement  gives  a  classified  analysis  of  the  expenditures  of 
the    Show. 

Post,  Arthur  Edwin,   Executive   Secretary,  Philadel- 
phia Milk  Show,  Editor. 
The    Report    of    the    Philadelphia    Milk    Show. 
191 1.     123  pp.    Illustrated.  50  cents 

Its  organization  and  management  and  a  description  of  the  ex- 
hibits. The  illustrations  include  reproductions  of  charts  and 
models  and  views  of  sections  of  the  Show,  also  reproductions 
of  the  advertisements  announcing  it.  The  report  is  a  valuable 
guide  for  the  organization  and  management  of  similar  under- 
takings. 


in 


FINANCE,    MUNICIPAL 

Finance,  Municipal  and   State;    In= 
eluding  Accounting  and  Taxation 

Cleveland,  Frederick  A.,  Ph.  D. 

Chapters  on  Municipal  Administration  and  Ac- 
counting.   361  pp.  $2.13 

The  various  chapters  of  the  volume  are  addresses  and  articles 
which  were  delivered  or  published  from  1903  to  1909.  They  are 
arranged  according  to  subject  matter.  Beginning  with  an  ex- 
position of  graft  in  its  various  forms,  and  of  the  citizen's 
ignorance  of  city  affairs,  the  author  analyzes  the  financial  man- 
agement of  municipalities  and  explains  the  principles  of  budget 
personality.  The  need  and  significance  of  correct  municipal 
accounting  are  set  forth  in  several  chapters  with  sufficient  detail 
to  serve  as  a  manual  of   reorganization. 

Cooley,  T.  M.,  LL.  D.,  late  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Michigan. 
A  Treatise  on  the  Law  of  Taxation,  Including  the 
Law  of  Local  Assessments.  (Third  edition  by- 
Albert  P.  Jacobs,  of  the  Detroit  Bar.)  1003.  2  vols. 
1,727  pp.  $12.00 

The  present  edition  was  prepared  at  the  request  of  Judge 
Cooley,  and  was  far  advanced  toward  completion  at  the  time  of 
his  death.  Under  his  direction  the  second  edition  was  taken  as 
a  basis  of  the  third,  and  most  of  the  alterations  in  the  text 
were  examined  and  affirmed  by  him.  Such  alterations  as  have 
been  made  are  always  by  way  of  amplification,  for  nearly  every 
passage  of  Judee  Cooley's  text  has  been  cited  with  approval  by 
the  highest  authority.  In  its  present  forrn  the  text  is  supported 
or  illustrated  by  reference  to  17,000  decisions,  of  which  more 
than  9.500  have  been  handed  down  since  the  previous  edition. 
The  table  of  cases  has  been  prepared  with  great  care  and  labor, 
citing  not  merely  the  official  reports,  but  referring  to  the  volume 
and  page  of  the  Reporter  System,  The  American  Decisions,  Re- 
ports and  State  Reports,  and  the  L.  R.  A.  By  means  of  this 
cooious  table  of  cases  a  ready  reference  is  afforded  to  the  princi- 
pal unofficial  series  of  reports. 

Dean.  Maurice  B.,  of  tbe  New  York  Bar. 

Municipal  Bonds  Held  Void.     1912.     122  pp.     3 
tables.  $2.50 

Including  issues  enjoined:  registration  or  certification  denied; 
issuance  not  comnelled:  validation  refused,  and  all  proceedings 
determining  illegality.  The  object  of  the  book  is  stated  to  be  the 
compilation,  in  ready  reference  form,  of  all  cases  in  the  United 
States  holding  municipal  bonds  void  or  determining  their  illegality 
nrior  to  issuance,  for  use  by  owners  and  dealers  in  municipal 
bonds,  ?nd  banks  loaning  on  such  securities  as  collateral,  so  as 
to  guard  against  illegal  issues  in  existence.  The  cases  are  ar- 
ranged in  three  tables,  which  are  fully  explained  and  described. 

Fillebrown.    C.    B.,    President    of   the    Massachusetts 
Single  Tax  League. 
The  ABCof  Taxation. 
236  pp.    8  illustrations.  $1.30 

An  authoritative  guide  that  cannot  fail  to  throw  light  upon  the 
true  principle  of  taxation  to  the  landlord,  the  rent  payer  and  the 
student  of  economics.     Mr.  Fillebrown  is  an  accepted  authority. 

George.  Henry. 

Progress  and  Poverty,    xi  -f-  512  pp.  $1.00 

An  inquiry  into  the  cause  of  industrial  depressions  and  of  In- 
crease of  want   with   increase  of  wealth.     The   remedy — taxation 

of  land  values. 

Hurd.  Richard  M..  President,  Lawyers  Mortgage  Com- 
pany, New  York. 
Principles   of  City  Land    Values.      191 1.     Third 
edition,     viii  -f  159  pp.     Illustrated.  $1.50 

Outlining  the  theory  of  the  structrrf  of  cities  and  stating  the 
average  scales  of  land  values  produced  bv  different  utilities  within 
them.  The  material  for  the  studv  of  the  structure  of  cities  has 
been  gathered  from  many  local  histories  of  American  cities,  old 
mans,  commercial  geographies,  etc.;  for  the  study  of  averaee 
scales  of  values  has  been  taken  from  valuations  of  land  and  build- 
ings, rentals  and  mortgages  obtained  in  about  fifty  cities  in  the 
rourse  of  the  mortgage  business  of  the  United  States  Mortgage 
•&  Trust   Company,   and  from   many  visits  to  these  cities.     The 

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FINANCE,    MUNICIPAL,    Continued 

viewpoint  is  that  of  a  conservative  lender  on  real  estate,  and 
while  the  examples  cited  are  chiefly  from  the  smaller  cities,  the 
author  believes  that  the  principles  stated  are  universal,  and  differ 
only  in  application  and   in  resulting  combinations. 

Marsh,  Benjamin  C. 

Taxation  of  Land  Values  in  American  Cities;  the 
Next  Step  in  Exterminating  Poverty.  191 1.  xv 
+  112  pp.  Paper,  80  cents;  Cloth,  $1.10 

The  author  realizes  that  the  heavy  taxation  of  land  values  is 
fundamentally  a  moral  issue.  He  does  not  regard  the  single  tax 
as  the  sole  cure  for  social  ills,  but  makes  the  assertion  that 
"adequate  taxation  of  land  values  will  reduce  the  cost  of  living 
by  $20  per  family  up  for  different  classes  in  cities." 

Metz  Fund,   New  York   Bureau   of   Municipal   Re- 
search. 
Handbook  of  Municipal  Accounting.     1913.     226 
pp.    30  folders.  $2.15 

This  book  is  a  simple  exposition  of  a  scientific  system  of 
accounting  and  reporting  for  municipal^  utilities,  which  will  pro- 
duce complete,  accurate  and  prompt  information  at  the  least 
possible  cost.  The  book  should  be  of  great  value  to  those  upon 
whom  rests  the  responsibility  of  conducting  the  affairs  of  a 
municipality. 

Montgomery,  Robert  H.,  C.  P.  A. 

Auditing:  Theory  and  Practice.  1912.  xxix  + 
657  pp.  $5-oo 

This  book  is  intended  to  instruct  those  who  have  had  but 
little  experience  in  accounting  matters,  as  well  as  to  guide  the 
qualified  public  accountant.  The  chapters  cover  the  auditor's 
qualifications,  his  duties  in  various  cases,  his  methods  of  work 
in  full;  a  study  of  depreciation;  special  points  in  different 
classes  of  audits,  including  building  and  loan  associations,  pub- 
lic service  corporations,  municipal  accounts,  charitable  organiza- 
tions, land  and  development  companies,  contractors,  etc.;  the  li- 
abilities of  auditors  and  of  directors;  and  certified  public  account- 
ant laws  and  examinations,  with  specimen  examination  questions 
from  various  states. 

National  Tax  Association. 

State  and  Local  Taxation.  Proceedings  of  the 
Sixth  Annual  Conference  under  the  auspices  of  the 
National  Tax  Association.    1913.    558  pp.  $3.16 

The  volume  is  well  indexed  and  full  of  helpful  description  and 
comment  of  a  practical  character  upon  current  problems  of  taxa- 
tion. Among  the  more  important  papers  are  a  review  of  the  tax 
legislation  of  1912,  by  Arthur  C.  Pleydell;  a  description  of  the 
tax  system  of  Pennsylvania,  by  N.  E.  Hause;  a  discussion  of 
the  working  of  the  interesting  scheme  of  corporation  taxation 
recently  enacted  in  California  by  A.  B.  Nye;  a  discussion  of  the 
relation  of  taxation  to  rates  of  public  service  corporations,  by 
N.  T.  Guernsey;  a  paper  on  the  Wisconsin  income  tax,  by  Nils 
P.  Haugen ;  and  an  outline  of  a  practical  plan  of  forest  taxation, 
by  F.  R.  Fairchild. 

Orr,  John,  M.  A. 

Taxation  of  Land  Values:  As  It  Affects  Land 
Owners  and  Others.  (Preface  by  Mary  Fels.) 
1912.    xi  +  116  pp.    Duty  extra.  35  cents 

"Mr.  Orr  contends,"  says  The  Public,  "for  the  economic  iden- 
tity of  taxes  and  land  values.  To  disregard  this  identity  is,  in 
his  view,  to  encounter  an  impassable  psychological  barrier  to  the 
movement  for  land  value  taxation  and  to  ignore  a  tactical  oppor- 
tunity. For  land-users  look  upon  'the  sums  which  they  pay  in 
rent  to  landowners,  and  in  rates  and  taxes  to  the  local  and 
national  governments,  as  one  payment  for  the  services  rendered 
to  them  by  the  community,'  and  will  as  willingly  give  in  another 
form  to-morrow  what  'they  are  willing  to  give  in  one  form 
to-day.'  Consequently,  as  Mr.  Orr  argues,  the  transfer  of  taxes 
to  land  values  will  not  lessen  the  net  income  of  land-owners,  but 
will  tend  to  increase  it  to  the  extent  of  the  advantage  in  re- 
duced friction  of  the  direct  land-value  tax  over  the  present  in- 
direct  ones." 

Page,  Wm.  Herbert,  of  the  Columbus,  Ohio,  Bar,  and 
Jones,  Paul,  of  the  Columbus,  Ohio,  Bar. 

A  Treatise  on  the  Law  of  Taxation  by  Local  and 
Special  Assessments.  1009.  2  vols,  ccxlvii  + 
2,497  PP.  $13.00 

Including  assessments  for  streets,  sidewalks,  alleys,  sewers  and 
all  other  city  improvements,  as  well  as  assessments  for  all  rural 
12 


FINANCE,    MUNICIPAL,    Continued 

improvements,  such  as  roads,  ditches,  drains,  bridges,  viaducts, 
water  systems  and  irrigation.  It  is  a  connected  statement  of 
the  principles  of  the  law  of  taxation  by  local  and  special  assess- 
ments as  established  by  court  decisions.  The  table  of  contents 
is  a  minute  analysis  of  the  subject.  Detailed  discussion  is  given 
of  the  method  by  which  the  public  corporations  may  enforce 
assessments  and  the  methods  whereby  the  property  owner  may 
seek  relief.  Exhaustive  citation  of  authorities  is  made,  and  there 
are  parallel  references  to  other  than  the  official  reports.  There 
is  a  very  full  index. 

Post,  Louis  F. 

The  Taxation  of  Land  Values.     1912.     145   PP- 
Illustrated.  30  cents 

Outlines  of  lectures  on  this  subject.  An  explanation,  with 
illustrative  charts,  notes  and  answers  to  typical  questions,  of  the 
land,  labor  and  fiscal  reform  advocated  by  Henry  George. 

Prendergast,  William  A.,  Comptroller  of  the  City  of 
New  York. 
Report  Submitting  Plan  of  Proposed  System  for 
the  Central  Purchase  and  Distribution  of  Sup- 
plies for  the  City  of  New  York.  March  15,  1913. 
72  pp.    Diagrams  and  tables.  10  cents 

Containing  all  the  forms  necessary  to  carry  the  proposed  sys- 
tem into  full  operation  and  effect.  The  plan  has  been  developed 
from  the  system  of  the  Canadian  Pacific  Railway  Company.  It 
does  not  contemplate  the  elimination  of  any  of  the  departmental 
purchasing  agents.  It  contemplates  charter  amendments  to  permit 
the  creation  of  a  department  of  purchase,  headed  by  a  board  of 
purchase  consisting  of  the  Mayor,  the  Comptroller  and  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Board  of  Aldermen;  also  the  appointment  of  a  general 
purchasing  agent  and  a  general  city  storekeeper.  The  heads  of 
the  eighteen  largest  purchasing  departments  in  the  city  would  be 
given  supervision  over  every  act  of  the  general  purchasing  agent. 

Seligman,  Edwin  R.  A.,  McVickar  Professor  of  Po- 
litical Economy,  Columbia  University. 
Essays  in  Taxation.    1913.    Revised  and  enlarged 
edition.    About  700  pp.  $3«75 

This  book  was  originally  published  in  1895,  and  the  favor  with 
which  it  was  received  has  rendered  necessary  a  new  edition  every 
two  or  three  years.  These  successive  editions  have,  however, 
contained  but  slight  changes.  Now,  after  the  lapse  of  almost 
eighteen  years,  the  progress  of  the  world  both  in  fiscal  facts  and 
in  economic  theory  has  been  so  marked  that  to  keep  the  book  a 
satisfactory  interpretation  of  actual  conditions  it  has  been  neces- 
sary to  revise  it  throughout,  rewriting  entire  sections  and  chap- 
ters. The  thirteen  chapters  of  the  original  have  grown  to 
twenty,  and  these,  together  with  the  additions  to  the  remainder  of 
the  work,  have  resulted  in  a  volume  of  almost  double  the  size. 
The  book  is,  therefore,  substantially  a  new  book.  The  Develop- 
ment of  Taxation,  the  General  Property  Tax,  the  Single  Tax, 
Double  Taxation,  the  Inheritance  Tax,  the  Taxation  of  Corpora- 
tions, and  the  Classification  of  Public  Revenues  are  some  of  the 
topics  taken  up  by  the  author. 

Shearman,  Thomas  G. 
Natural  Taxation. 
268  pp.  Goth,  $1.00;  paper,  50  cents 

The  contents  of  this  suggestive  volume:  Crooked  Taxation, 
Direct  Taxation,  Taxation  of  Personal  Property,  Testimony  of 
Experience,  Effect  of  the  Personalty  Tax  on  Farmers.  Taxa- 
tion of  Women  and  Children,  Taxation  of  Improvements,  The 
Natural  Tax,  One  Tax  Enough,  Justice  of  Natural  Taxation, 
Where  the  Burden  Falls,  Social  Effects  of  Natural  Taxation, 
Replies  to  Objections,  Incidence  of  Taxation. 

Upson,  Lent  D. 

Sources  of  Municipal  Revenues  in  Illinois.     1912. 
126  pp.    32  tables,  1  map.  75  cents 

One  of  the  "University  of  Illinois  Studies  in  the  Social 
Sciences."  The  budgets  of  twenty-four  cities  of  over  8,000  popu- 
lation (excluding  Chicago)  were  examined  in  this  study,  part  of 
the  purpose  of  which  is  to  show  the  means  of  revenue  which  are 
not  fully  utilized.  Complete  statements  were  secured  from  all 
but  three  of  the  cities  examined,  covering  the  revenues  for 
general  purposes.  The  material  is  arranged  according  to  the 
plan  employed  by  the  Bureau  of  the  Census  for  tabulating  the 
statistics  of  cities.  Considerable  information  is  included  which 
is  not  directly  concerned  with  city  budgets,  but  is  important  to 
the  permanent  betterment  of  cities — such  data  as  the  cost  of 
operating  municipal  water  and  light  plants,  the  time  and  date 
of  expiration  of  public  service  franchises,  the  rates  of  license 
taxes,  and  the  relation  between  the  number  of  liquor  licenses  and 
the  number  of  police. 

13 


FIRE  LOSS,   PREVENTION   AND   PROTECTION 

Fire  Loss,  Prevention  and  Protection 

American  School  of  Correspondence. 

Cyclopedia  -of   Fire   Prevention  and   Insurance. 
1912.    4  vols.    1,800  pp.    765  illustrations.        $15.80 

This  work  covers  the  cause,  prevention  and  handling  of  fires, 
the  theory  and  practice  of  fire  insurance,  the  protection  and  in- 
spection of  risks,  the  adjustment  of  losses  and  the  business 
operations  involved.  The  sections  on  fire  prevention  make  a 
careful  study  of  all  modern  public  and  private  fire-fighting  ap- 
pliances, and  give  particular  attention  to  the  possibilities  and 
limitations  of  fire-resisting  building  construction.  The  sections 
on  fire  insurance  cover  both  the  big  general  principles  underlying 
the  insurance  business  and  their  practical  application  to  current 
insurance  problems.  All  matters  of  inspection,  hazards,  risks, 
ratings  and  schedules  are  exhaustively  treated.  The  authors  have 
considered  the  simplest,  most  efficient  methods  of  applying  the 
fundamental  principles  of  insurance  practice  to  each  problem 
that  may  arise  in  the  day's  work,  showing  the  different  ways  in 
which  it  may  occur,  and  explaining  in  detail  and  by  diagrams 
how  it  can  best  be  handled. 

Croker,  Edward  F. 
Fire  Prevention. 
1912.    x  -J-  354  pp.    Illustrated.  $1.65 

The  author,  who  was  for  twenty-seven  years  a  New  York  fire- 
man, and  for  the  last  twelve  years  of  that  time  head  of  the 
Department,  says:  "The  fighting  of  many  fires  and  the  study  of 
the  subjects  both  of  fire  extinguishment  and  fire  prevention, 
during  my  years  of  connection  with  the  New  York  Fire  Depart- 
ment, have  led  me  to  set  down  the  recommendations  and  plans 
which  will  be  found  in  the  chapters  of  this  book,  and  it  is  ray 
sincere  hope  that  by  the  adoption  of  at  least  some  of  them  in 
this  great  country  the  annual  sacrifice  of  life  and  property  to 
the  most  destructive  of  the  elements  may  be  somewhat  reduced." 

Freitag,  Joseph  Kendall,  B.  S.,  C.  E. 

Fire  Prevention  and  Fire  Protection  as  Applied 
to  Building  Construction. 

1912.  ix  +  J038  pp.  $4.00 

A    volume    of    convenient    size   for  easy    reference,    containing 

much    detailed    material    on    modern  progress    in    fire-resistance, 

clearly    presented   and   made   forcible  by  frequent    references   to 
definite  conditions  and  experiences. 

Hardy,  Edward  R.,  New  York  Fire  Insurance  Exchange. 
Fire  Insurance  Law   (including  Standard  Policy). 

1913.  250  pp.  $1.50 

A  treatise  on  the  history  and  growth  of  the  standard  fire  in- 
surance policy,  a  discussion  of  its  legal  phases  and  a  careful  analy- 
sis of  its  provisions,  including  a  group  of  standard  forms,  clauses 
and  riders. 

Kenlon,  John,  Chief  of  New  York  Fire  Department. 
Fires  and  Fire   Fighters.     191 3.     xii  -f-  410  pp. 
Illustrated.  $2.70 

A  history  of  modern  fire-fighting,  with  a  review  of  its  develop- 
ment from  earliest  times.  Among  the  subjects  treated  are  fire 
control  in  schools,  factories  and  hospitals;  theaters  and  fire  panics; 
the  hotel  peril;  seaport  problems:  fire  strategy  in  the  homes  of  the 
people;  gasoline  and  garages,  and  the  problem  of  the  skyscraper. 
There  is  an  important  chapter  on  "The  Trade  of  Arson,"  and  two 
chapters  are  devoted  to  "Great  Fires  and  How  They  Were 
Fought."  Methods  of  fire-fighting  in  England,  France  and  Ger- 
many are  described,  and  much  practical  information  is  given  re- 
garding the  New  York  Fire  Department.  Many  valuable  tables 
are  found  in  the  appendix. 

McKeon,    Peter    Joseph,    Consulting    Expert    in    Fire 
Prevention. 
Fire  Prevention.    256  pp.    Illustrated.  $i«75 

A  treatise  and  textbook  on  making  life  and  property  safe 
against  fire.  "For  inspectors,  fire  marshals,  business  men,  build- 
ing managers,  shop  foremen,  superintendents  of  institutions, 
janitors,  engineers,  matrons  and  housekeepers." 

Martin,  Frank  E.,  and 
Davis,  George  M.,  M.  D. 

Firebrands. 

191 1.    219  pp.     16  illustrations.  68  cents 

Designed  to  teach  children  how  to  avoid  setting  a  fire,  how  to 
extinguish  one,  and  how  to  hold  one  in  check  until  the  arrival 
of  help.  Each  story  in  the  book  tells  how  a  fire  was  started, 
how  it  should  have  been  avoided,  and  how  it  was  put  out. 


GARDEN  CITIES,  SUBURBS  AND   VILLAGES 

Garden  Cities,  Suburbs  and  Villages 

See  also  City  Planning  and  Landscape  Architecture 

Information  will  be  furnished  on  request  regarding 
books  and  pamphlets  describing  individual  places  under 
this  head. 

Benoit-Levy,  Georges. 

L'Enfant  des  Cites- Jardins.  (The  Child  of  the 
Garden  City.)  180  pp.  Many  illustrations.  Duty 
extra.  $1-12 

Tells  the  story  of  garden  cities  as  they  relate  to  the  life  of 
children.  Full  of  information  about  the  progress  of  the  move- 
ment, particularly  in  England  and  America,  while  a  short  closing 
chapter  summarizes  the  accomplishment  and  the  hopes  and  plans 
of  the  Association  des  Cit6s-Jardins  de  France.  Written  in  easy 
French. 

Benoit-Levy,  Georges. 

Le  Roman  des  Cites- Jardins.  (The  Romance  of 
Garden  Cities.)  Numerous  illustrations.  Duty 
extra.  $1.10 

Describing  attractively  and  simply  scenes  which  the  author  has 
witnessed  during  residence  in  these  places.     In  simple  French. 

Benoit-L£vy,  Georges. 

Art  et  Cooperation  dans  les  Cites- Jardins.  (Art 
and  Cooperation  in  Garden  Cities.)  1911.  226  pp. 
Many  illustrations.     Duty  extra.  $1.40 

The  third  volume  by  this  author  on  the  garden  city.  Written 
in  easy  French.  Covering  with  considerable  detail  the  artistic 
character  of  garden  cities,  the  English  cooperative  societies,  such 
as  the  Copartnership  Tenants,  Ltd.,  and  a  review  of  the  progress 
of  the  movement  in  many  countries. 

Co-partnership  Publishers,  Ltd. 

Co-partnership  in  Housing.  (By  E.  B.  Foreword 
by  Raymond  Unwin.)  191 1.  30  pp.  Many  illus- 
trations.    Duty  extra.  10  cents 

An  account  of  the  Hampstead  Tenants'  Societies  from  the 
formation  of  the  first  in  May,  1907. 

Culpin,  Ewart  G.,  Secretary  to  the  Garden  Cities  and 
Town  Planning  Association. 
Garden   City    Movement   Up-to-Date.     1912.     63 
pp.    Illustrated.    Boards,  50  cents;  paper,  35  cents 

A  record  of  facts  relating  to  33  different  settlements  in  which 
there  are  nearly  50,000  people.  The  facts  are  made  vivid  through 
the  use  of  many  diagrams  showing  the  layout  and  development 
of  the  various  settlements.  Mr.  Culpin  says:  "Every  effort  has 
been  made  to  obtain  the  utmost  degree  of  accuracy,  and  the 
figures  given  have  been  supplied  by  the  companies  or  societies 
concerned."  The  book  closes  with  the  1912  annual  report  of  the 
Garden  Cities  and  Town  Planning  Association,  with  the  consti- 
tution and  by-laws,  and  a  list  of  officers,  branches,  affiliated  asso- 
ciations and  foreign  correspondents. 

Garden  Cities  and  Town  Planning  Association. 

Garden    Cities    and    Town    Planning.      Monthly 

Magazine.       Published     in     England.       Illustrated. 

Yearly  subscription,  $1.00 

A  chronicle  of  the  chief  events  in  the  garden  city  movement, 
and  of  the  plans  for  its  development.  Giving  concrete  examples 
of  its  success,   with   plans  and  views. 

Howard,  Ebenezer. 

Garden  Cities  of  To-morrow.  167  pp.  Illustrated. 
Duty  extra.  50  cents 

This  book,  first  entitled  "To-morrow:  a  Peaceful  Path  to  Real 
Reform,"  was  the  literary  source  of  the  garden  city  movement. 
The  author  foresaw  "a  garden  city,  combining  industrial  works 
and  garden  village,  welded  into  a  complete  town,  with  municipal 
ownership  of  land,  encircled  by  an  agricultural  belt,"  thus  com- 
bining advantages  of  town  and  country. 

15 


GARDENS,   HOME,    SCHOOL   AND    VACANT   LOT 

Gardens,  Home,  School  and 
Vacant  Lot 

See  also  Landscape  Architecture 

Albee,  Helen  R. 

Hardy  Plants  for  Cottage  Gardens.    309  pp.     60 

illustrations  from  photographs.  $i«73 

A  personal  and  very  readable  record,  illustrated  by  photo- 
graphs, of  the  author's  success  in  assembling  within  a  limited 
area  the  choice  varieties  of  hardy  shrubs,  annuals  and  peren- 
nials, arranged  to  give  a  succession  of  bloom  of  pure  color  in 
each  bed.  With  a  list  giving  manner  of  growth,  height,  time 
of  blooming,  exact  color,  special  requirements  of  soil  and  moist- 
ure, "easy  ways"  taught  by  experience,  and  many  other  items  of 
vital  importance. 

Clute,  Willard  Nelson,  Teacher  of  Science,  Flower 
Technical  High  School  for  Girls,  Chicago,  111. 
Agronomy.     A    Course   in   Practical   Gardening 
for  High  Schools.    1913.    xi  +  296  pp.  Many  illus- 
trations. $1.10 

This  book  begins  with  chapters  on  chemistry,  the  origin  and 
composition  of  soils,  manures,  and  the  effects  of  heat,  light  and 
moisture  on  the  plant.  These  are  followed  by  a  comprehensive 
discussion  of  planting,  cultivating,  pruning,  propagating,  lawn- 
making,  plant-breeding,  evolution,  and  the  origin  of  domestic  races 
of  plants.  Insect  pests  and  plant  diseases  are  discussed  and 
methods  of  control  are  given.  Much  space  is  devoted  to  the  im- 
provement of  the  home  grounds,  both  as  regards  the  growing  of 
better  vegetables  and  the  production  of  finer  flowers  and  more 
tasteful  lawns  and  borders.  The  work  centers  in  the  school 
garden  and  is  planned  to  cover  the  second  semester  of  the  school 
year,  following  closely  the  sequence  of  the  seasons.  This  is  also 
a  gardening  manual  for  the  general  reader,  since  it  covers  the 
whole  subject  of  gardening  and  requires  no  previous  knowledge 
for  its  comprehension. 

Greene,  M.  Louise,  Ph.  D. 

Among  School  Gardens.     388  pp.   113  views  and 
diagrams.  $1.25 

The  history  of  school  gardening  in  Europe,  Canada  and  the 
United  States  is  given,  and  the  various  kinds  of  gardens  to 
accomplish  various  aims  are  distinguished  and  described.  There 
are  full  instructions  for  preparing  the  soil  and  planning,  planting 
and  caring  for  the  garden.  The  cost  of  equipment  is  estimated, 
and  the  care  of  tools  is  explained.  The  appendices  include  lists 
of  plants  for  different  kinds  of  gardens,  planting  schemes  and 
directions,  record  forms  for  teachers  and  pupils,  cooking  notes, 
programs  of  work  for  the  year.  There  is  an  outline  of  garden 
work  which  shows  how  it  may  be  connected  with  and  made  to 
illuminate  every  phase  of  the  second  grade   primary   work. 

Hemenway,  Herbert  D. 

How  to  Make  School  Gardens.     126  pp.    9  illus- 
trations. $1.10 

Of  this  book  the  author  says:  "This  little  manual  has  grown 
out  of  the  experience  of  the  author  in  children's  garden  work, 
and  is  the  answer  to  the  many  inquiries  which  are  received  from 
various  points  all  over  the  country  from  persons  who  are  en- 
thusiastic and  realize  the  purpose  and  advantages  of  the  school 
garden  movement,  but  who  have  not  had  the  advantages  and 
training  to  understand  the  best  methods  of  making  and  con- 
ducting a  garden  so  as  to  get  good  results  from  an  agricultural 
and   horticultural   standpoint." 

Meier,  W.  H.  D.,  A.  M.,  Head  of  the  Department  of 
Biology  and  School  Gardening,  State  Normal 
School,  Framingham,  Mass. 

School  and  Home  Gardens.     1913.     v  -f  319  pp. 

Many  illustrations.  80  cents 

One  of  the  most  satisfactory  books  on  the  subject  thus  far 
published,  because  of  its  definite  dealing  with  individual  plants, 
one  at  a  time,  telling  how  to  plan  for,  plant  and  care  for  each 
one.  It  is  equally  useful  as  a  textbook  for  grammar  grades  and 
as  a  guide  for  home  gardeners.  The  drawings  and  photographs 
have  all  been  made  expressly  for  this  book.  Plans  are  given  for 
laying  out  and  planting  home  and  school  grounds  and  gardens. 


GARDENS,    Continued— GENERAL    BOOKS 

Miller,  Louise  Klein. 
Children's  Gardens. 
235  PP-    48  illustrations.  $1.32 

The  book  has  been  written  especially  in  the  interest  of  chil- 
dren's gardens,  with  the  idea  of  transforming  barren,  dreary,  ill- 
kept  school  grounds  and  other  uncared-for  places  into  places  of 
beauty  and  good  taste,  and  of  developing  love  of  nature  in 
children.  The  book  contains  much  of  value  to  all  interested  in 
the  art  of  gardening,  and  shows  how  much  can  be  accomplished 
by  a  slight  expenditure  of  time,  money  and  energy  with  a  display 
of  good  taste. 

Parsons,  Henry  G. 

Children's    Gardens    for    Pleasure,    Health    and 
Education.     226  pp.     Illustrated.  $1.10 

Part  I  explains  clearly  and  charmingly  the  fascination  of  the 
garden  and  the  value  of  the  knowledge  to  be  gained  there.  Part 
TT  tells  how  to  prepare  and  lay  out  the  ground,  and  describes  in 
detail  every  step  of  the  instruction  and  control  of  children  in 
gardens  of  from  20  to  500  plots.  There  is  a  list  of  books  and 
pamphlets  for  the  teacher,  and  the  appendices  include  the  cost 
of  tools  and  equipment  and  a  report  of  the  Children's  School 
Farm  in  DeWitt  Clinton  Park,  New  York  City. 

Williams,  Dora. 

Gardens  and  Their  Meaning. 

191 1.    ix  +  235  pp.  $1.00 

This  volume,  bv  a  teacher  in  the  "Boston  Normal  School,  is  not 
only  a  practical  handbook  for  teachers  of  gardening,  presenting 
scientific  material  in  simple,  readable  form,  but  shows  "that  a 
garden  for  education  may  be,  not  merely  in  substance,  but  in 
spirit,  a  corner  of  the  great  world."  The  appendix  contains 
lists  of  gardening  books,  of  plants  for  children's  gardens  and 
interesting  gardening  experiments,  and  planting  tables  for  twenty 
flowers  and  twentv  vegetables.  The  illustrations  are  new  and 
delightful. 


General   Books   on    Municipal   Qov= 
ernment  and   Good   Citizenship 

See  also  Commission  Government  and 
Short    Ballot 

Addams,  Jane,  Head  of  Hull  House,  Chicago. 
Democracy  and  Social  Ethics. 
1912.    281  pp.  $i.35 

The  complexity  of  industrial  struggle,  the  strain  of  social  re- 
lations under  conditions  of  overcrowding  and  their  effect  upon 
the  efforts  of  social  settlements  to  better  these  conditions,  are 
stated  with  great  force  and  clearness.  From  the  point  of  view 
which  believes  the  essential  idea  of  democracy  to  be  the  identifi- 
cation of  one's  own  with  the  common  lot,  the  author  reviews 
efforts  toward  amelioration  in  philanthropy,  in  industry,  in  edu- 
cation and  in  politics. 

Addams,  Jane. 

Newer  Ideals  of  Peace.    243  pp.  $i-35 

The  author  draws  a  vivid  picture  of  the  absorption  of  foreign 
races,  their  ideals  of  the  kindliness  and  protection  of  govern- 
ment, and  declares  that  the  crowded  quarters  of  the  city  are  the 
focal  point  for  the  building  of  national  character.  It  is  there 
that  the  new  characteristics  and  customs  are  born  that  will  affect 
the  future  organization  of  government.  The  quickening  concern 
for  human  welfare,  as  indicated  by  the  attempt  to  #  eradicate 
tuberculosis  and  kindred  diseases;  the  protection  of  children  for 
industrial  efficiency,  are  but  the  indication  of  the  upbuildine  of 
national  strength  and  character  by  the  preservation  and  utiliza- 
tion of  the  best  of  the  new  population,  rather  than  by  militarism. 

Allen,  William  H.,  Director  of  the  Bureau  of  Munici- 
pal Research,  New  York  City. 
Efficient  Democracy. 
356  pp.     12  illustrations.  $1.62 

The  Literary  Digest  says: 

"The  princirtal  aim  of  the  book  is  to  awaken  desire  to  know 
the  essential  facts  regarding  the  administration  of  health,  busi- 
ness, school,  church,  hospital,  juvenile  court,  charity,  bequest 
and    government.     *     *     *     Undoubtedly    the    most    impressive 

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GENERAL  BOOKS— Continued 

characteristic  of  the  volume  in  an  intellectual  sense  is  its  signifi- 
cance in  favor  of  the  validity  of  the  democratic  principle  of 
government." 

American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science. 
Efficiency  in  City  Government.  May,  1912.  vii  -f- 
367  PP-  $1.00 

Twenty-eight  articles  by  authorities,  grouped  under  the  follow- 
ing general  heads:  The  Need  for  Efficiency  in  Municipal  Gov- 
ernment; Efficiency  Principles  Applied;  Bureaus  of  Municipal 
Research;  Training  for  Municipal  Efficiency. 

Baldwin,  Simeon  E. 

The  Relations  of  Education  to   Citizenship. 
1912.     178  pp.  $1.25 

This  work  constitutes  the  ninth  volume  of  Dodge  Lectures,  de- 
livered at  Yale  University  by  Hon.  Simeon  E.  Baldwin,  Governor 
of  Connecticut.  The  book  fulfills  admirably  the  purpose  of  the 
founder  of  these  lectures,  which  was  to  promote  among  "edu- 
cated men  of  the  United  States  an  understanding  of  the  duties 
of  Christian  citizenship  and  a  sense  of  personal  responsibility  for 
the  performance  of  those  duties." 

Beard,  Charles  A.,  Associate  Professor  of  Politics  in 
Columbia  University. 
American  City  Government.    A  Survey  of  Newer 
Tendencies. 

1912.     ix  -f-  420  pp.     14  illustrations.  $2.00 

The  "newer  tendencies"  surveyed  are  largely  social  and  eco- 
uomic,  and  the  table  of  contents  indicates  the  large  proportion  of 
space  given  to  such  functions  of  city  government  rather  than 
to  political  and  administrative  matters.  The  chapter  heads  are 
as  follows:  The  People  of  the  City;  Home  Rule;  Municipal 
Democracy;  Municipal  Government  and  Administration;  Raising 
and  Spending  the  City's  Money;  Guarding  the  City  Against 
Crime  and  Vice;  Franchises  and  Public  Utilities;  Municipal 
Ownership;  The  Streets  of  the  City;  Guarding  the  Health  of  the 
People;  Tenement  House  Reform;  Education  and  Industrial 
Training;  Municipal  Recreation;  City  Planning.  The  appendi- 
ces give:  An  Outline  of  Sections  for  a  Model  Street  Railway 
Franchise;  Recommendations  of  the  New  York  City  Commission 
on  Congestion;  a  Bibliography.  This  is  a  book  for  students  and 
citizens,  and  presents  its  material  in  an  attractive  and  interesting 
way. 

Beard,  Charles  A. 

American  Government  and  Politics. 

191 1.  772  pp.  $2.26 

A  manual,  designed  for  college  students  and  citizens,  rather 
than  as  an  elementary  or  a  technical  treatise.  The  chapters  on 
"The  Organization  of  Municipal  Government"  and  "Municipal 
Functions"  are  the  ones  of  special  interest  to  those  concerned 
with  the  study  of  cities. 

Beatty.  Bessie. 

A  Political  Primer  for  the  New  Voter. 

1912.  (Introduction     by    Hon.     William     Kent.) 

Boards,  50  cents;  cloth.  75  cents 

A  shelf  full  of  lengthy  treatises,  codes  and  statutes  has  here 
been  reduced  to  a  pocket-size  volume,  written  in  simple,  read- 
able English.  It  avoids  the  dryness  of  a  text  on  civil  govern- 
ment, and  yet  imparts  up-to-date  information  regarding  the  politi- 
cal conditions  of  our  country.  It  contains  a  fair  •  statement 
of  the  principles  of  our  political  parties  and  a  chapter  on  eco- 
nomic theories  touching  the  growing  doctrines  of  socialism  and 
single  tax.  There  is  also  a  chapter  on  the  legal  status  of 
women  in  the  United  States. 

Bryce,  Right  Honorable  James,  British  Ambassador 
to  the  United  States. 
The  Hindrances  to  Good  Citizenship. 
123  pp.  $1.25 

Lectures  given  at  Yale  University.  It  is  the  average  citizen 
whom  the  author  addresses,  and  whose  failure  to  maintain  the 
proper  standard  of  civic  duty  he  here  analyses  as  due  to  indul- 
gence, personal  self-interest  and  party  spirit.  There  is  a  sepa- 
rate lecture  on  each  of  these  causes,  with  a  fourth  which  shows 
how  to  overcome  the  obstacles  to  good  citizenship. 


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GENERAL  BOOKS— Continued 

The  Civic  Press. 

The  American  City. 

Published  monthly.  Annual  subscription,  $2.00; 
single  issues,  25  cents;  bound  volumes  (6  issues), 
latest,  $2.00;  all  others,  $2.50. 

This  magazine  tells,  in  an  interesting,  practical  manner,  of 
progress  along  all  lines  which  tend  to  make  cities  and  towns 
more  healthy,  happy  and  convenient  places  in  which  to  live  and 
transact  business.  The  municipal  official  finds  in  it  helpful  in- 
formation for  his  own  department  of  work,  in  addition  to  gaining 
a  broad  outlook  on  civic  advance  generally;  while  the  man  or 
woman  who  holds  no  office,  but  is  interested  in  the  public  wel- 
fare, is  thereby  enabled  to  advance  that  welfare  more  effectively 
than  would  otherwise  be  possible. 

Deming,  Horace  E. 

The  Government  of  American  Cities. 

323  PP-  $I-65 

This  volume  is  a  clear  and  definite  exposition  of  the  thesis  that 
the  success  of  municipal  government  depends  upon  the  applica- 
tion of  the  fundamental  principles  of  democracy.  The  expe- 
riences of  foreign  cities  are  brought  to  bear  upon  America's 
problems  of  to-day.  The  book  contains  a  particularly  good  dis- 
cussion of  the  relation  of  the  city  to  the  state.  The  municipal 
program  of  the  National  Municipal  League  is  reprinted  as  an 
appendix  to  this  volume. 


Fairlie,  John  Archibald. 

Municipal  Administration,    xiii  -f-  448  pp.        $3.18 

The  book  gives  a  general  knowledge  of  the  whole  field  of 
municipal  administration  for  those  interested  in  public  affairs, 
and  at  the  same  time  forms  the  groundwork  for  more  detailed 
investigation  for  those  who  make  this  a  special  field  either  for 
academic  study  or  for  practical  work. 

Goodnow,    Frank    J.,    Eaton    Professor    of    Adminis- 
trative Law  and  Municipal  Science  in  Columbia 
University. 
Municipal  Government.    401  pp.  $3.00 

The  author  has  sought  to  cover  the  history  of  city  development 
in  general  and  to  determine  the  character  of  city  populations, 
with  the  purpose  of  lending  aid  in  the  solution  of  some  of  to-day's 
pressing  problems.  The  information  given  and  the  conclusions 
drawn  are  clearly  arranged  under  subheads,  the  book  being  de- 
signed for  students  in  high  schools  and  colleges,  as  well  as  for 
the  broader  reference  use  of  the  practical  worker. 

Howe,  Frederic  C. 

European  Cities  at  Work.    1913.    370  pp.        $1.92 

The  third  of  a  series  of  books  by  this  author,  dealing  with  the 
municipal  problem.  It  is  a  study  of  activities  rather  than  politi- 
cal machinery,  and  outlines  the  municipal  achievements  of  Ger- 
many, England  and  other  European  countries  during  the  last 
20  years.  Such  subjects  as  town  planning,  housing,  municipal 
ownership,  care  of  working  people,  recreation,  docks  and  har- 
bors, as  well  as  the  beautification  of  cities,  are  among  those 
treated  in  this  volume. 


Munro,  William  Bennett,  Ph.  D.,  LL.  B.,  Professor 

of  Municipal  Government  in  Harvard  University. 

The  Government  of  American  Cities.    1912.    ix  + 

401  pp.  $2.37 

A  volume  on  municipal  governmental  organization.  It  traces 
the  growth  of  American  city  government  and  analyses  the  city's 
social  structure;  it  defines  the  city's  function  as  an  agent  of  the 
state,  and  gives  suggestions  upon  the  drafting  of  city  charters. 
The  powers  and  responsibilities  of  American  cities  are  explained, 
and  are  pronounced  too  narrow  in  comparison  with  those  of 
European  cities.  The  composition,  rights  and  duties  of  the  mu- 
nicipal electorate  are  reviewed,  with  the  requirements  for  voting. 
Other  chapters  are  as  follows:  Municipal  Nominations  and  Elec- 
tions; Municipal  Parties  and  Politics;  The  City  Council;  The 
Mayor;  The  Administrative  Departments;  Municipal  Officials  and 
Employees;  City  Government  by  a  Commission;  Direct  Legisla- 
tion and  the  Recall;  Municipal  Reform  and  Reformers. 

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GENERAL   BOOKS,   Cont.— HEALTH   AND   SANITATION 

Munro,  William  Bennett,  Ph.  D. 

The  Government  of   European  Cities. 

409  PP.  $2.69 

The  government  of  French,  Prussian  and  English  cities  is  ex- 
amined as  to  its  structure  and  functions,  and  compared  on  many 
points  with  that  of  the  United  States.  The  book  is  not  padded 
with  detail,  but  discusses  the  subject  analytically  with  especial 
explanation  of  the  relations  between  city  and  state  government. 

Pollock,  Horatio  M.,  Ph.  D.,  and 

Morgan,  William  S.,  Ph.  D. 

Modern  Cities.    Progress  of  the  Awakening  for 
Their  Betterment  Here  and  in  Europe.     1913.    x 

-f-  418  pp.     16  illustrations.  $1.63 

The  authors  of  this  volume  were  closely  associated  for  several 
years  in  active  work  for  municipal  betterment  in  the  city  of 
Albany,  N.  Y.  While  thus  engaged  they  came  in  touch  with 
the  principal  movements  for  social  progress  in  America.  The 
work  is  the  result  of  careful  and  painstaking  study  into  conditions 
of  city  government  by  two  competent  writers  who  have  analyzed 
these  in  the  light  of  modern  requirements  and  the  demands  of 
patriotic  citizenship.  The  following  are  the  chapter  heads: 
"The  Modern  City";  "City  Planning";  "Home  Planning — The 
Housing  Problem";  "City  Streets  and  Some  Splendid  Types"; 
"The  Value  of  Art  in  Cities";  "The  Value  of  Parks — Impressions 
at  Sans  Souci  and  Versailles";  "Harbor  Development — The  Port 
of  Genoa";  "The  Conservation  of  Human  Life";  "Municipal 
Government";  "Municipal  Home  Rule";  "The  Selection  of  City 
Officers  and  Employees";  "The  Control  of  Municipal  Public  Ser- 
vice Corporations";  "Recent  Developments  in  Education";  "Re- 
ligion and  Municipal  Life";  "The  Social  Evil";  "Conditions  and 
Methods  of  Social  Progress  in  American  Cities." 

Roeder,  Rev.  Adolph. 

Practical  Citizenship.     215  pp:  $1.60 

Setting  forth  the  civic  obligations  of  the  individual  citizen. 

Rowe,  Leo  S. 

Problems  of  City  Government.    358  pp.  $1.65 

An  original,  suggestive  and  serious  consideration  of  the  prob- 
lems of  the  city,  the  political  and  social  consequences  of  its 
growth,  its  legal  powers,  its  part  in  the  American  political  sys- 
tem, and  the  problems  of  its  utility  corporations. 

Wilcox,  Delos  F.,  Ph.  D. 

The  American  City:    A  Problem  in  Democracy. 
423  PP.  $1.34 

Dr.  Wilcox  believes  that  the  great  political  and  social  reforms 
of  the  future  will  come  through  the  city.  By  tracing  the  causes 
of  city  growth,  the  peculiarities  of  life  in  the  city,  and  its  ideals 
of  democracy,  he  has  tried  to  make  plain  to  all  the  breadth  of  a 
city's  influence,  the  foundations  of  its  organization,  the  extent 
of  its  responsibility  and  the  sources  of  its  revenue  in  this  country. 


Health   and   Sanitation, 
Public 

See  also  Housing,  Insect  Extermination,  Public 

Works,  Smoke  Nuisance,  Tuberculosis, 

Waste  Disposal,  Water  Supply,  etc. 

Allen,  William  H. 
Civics  and  Health. 
1909.    xi  -J-  411  pp.     Illustrated.  $1.25 

What  is  being  accomplished  in  various  places  to  protect  the 
health  rights  of  the  community  is  shown  in  this  book  in  a  prac- 
tical way.  What  the  school  board  and  the  teacher  should  be  and 
do  in  order  to  improve  school  and  home  conditions;  how  coope- 
ration with  dispensaries  and  other  agencies  furthers  economy; 
what  is  being  done  against  tuberculosis  and  unclean  milk,  and 
how  to  battle  with  alcoholism  and  the  tobacco  and  patent-medi- 
cine evils,  all  have  their  place,  with  much  other  material,  in  this 
volume.  Its  outlines  and  diagrams  and  pictures  definitely  tell 
facts  worth  knowing. 

American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science. 
The  Public  Health  Movement.  191 1.  vi  +  334 
pp.  Paper  covers,  $1.00;  cloth,  $1.50 

Twenty-four  articles  by  authorities,  arranged  under  the  fol- 
lowing general  topics:  The  General  Problem;  Disease  Carriers — 
the  Control  of  Causes;  Elimination  of  Diseasea — Physical  Care  of 
Individuals. 

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HEALTH  AND  SANITATION— Continued 

American  Association  for  Study  and  Prevention  of 

Infant  Mortality. 

Transactions   of  the  Third  Annual   Meeting  of 

the    Association,    Cleveland,    October   2-5,    1912. 

1913-    383  PP-  $3.i3 

Among  the  important  addresses  contained  in  this  volume,  we 
note  one  on  the  Federal  Children's  Bureau,  by  Julia  C.  Lathrop, 
another  on  "The  Department  of  Health's  Activity  in  Lessening 
Infant  Mortality  in  Pennsylvania,"  by  B.  Franklin  Roger,  M.  D., 
and  others  on  continuation  schools,  eugenics,  housing,  nursing  and 
social  work. 

American  Public  Health  Association. 

Reports  and  Papers  of  the  Association.  Pub- 
lished annually.  $5.00 

A  necessary  part  of  every  library  that  undertakes  to  supply 
reliable  information  about  public  health.  Special  prices  for  back 
volumes.  ' 

American  Public  Health  Association. 

Standard  Methods  for  the  Examination  of  Water 
and  Sewage.  Compiled  by  the  Laboratory  Section 
of  the  American  Public  Health  Association.  Sec- 
ond Edition.     1912.     144  pp.  $1.25 

This  is  a  revised  edition  of  the  volume  issued  in  1900  under 
the  title  of  "Report  of  the  Committee  on  Standard  Methods  of 
Water  Analysis  to  the  Laboratory  Section  of  the  American  Pub- 
lic Health  Association."  The  subject  is  considered  under  chapter 
headings  of  "Physical  Examination,"  "Chemical  Examination," 
"Microscopical  Examination"  and  "Bacteriological  Examination." 
Bibliographies  and  an  index  are  also  included. 

Barry,  William  F.,  M.  D. 

The  Hygiene  of  the  School  Room.  191 1.  207 
pp.  $1.00;  Library  Edition,  $1.50 

This  new  edition  summarizes  modern  thought  on  this  im- 
portant subject  as  developed  in  professional  study  and  investiga- 
tion throughout  the  country.  Treats  helpfully  all  problems  of 
school   sanitation. 

Blair,  Thomas  S.,  M.  D. 

Public  Hygiene.  191 1.  2  vols,  xv  -f-  644  pp.  158 
illustrations.  $10.40 

This  is  a  working  handbook  showing  accomplished  results.  The 
following  are  the  chapter  heads:  The  Family  vs.  the  Community; 
Hotels,  Lodging  Houses  and  Public  Buildings;  School  Inspection 
and  College  Sanitation;  Penal  Institutions  and  Hospitals  for  the 
Insane;  Maternities;  Places  of  Amusement  and  of  Dissipation; 
Slums  and  Town  Nuisances;  Special  Rural  Hygiene  and  Sanita- 
tion; State  Departments  and  Boards  of  Health;  A  Proposed 
Federal  Bureau  of  Health;  Local  Boards  of  Health  and  Sanitary 
Officers;  Army  and  Navy  Sanitation — or  Hygiene  of  Camps; 
The  Coroner  and  the  Physician;  Quarantine;  Infectious  Diseases; 
Immunity;  Epidemics;  Disinfection;  Tuberculosis  Sanatoria  and 
Dispensaries;  Home  Hygiene  and  Interior  Sanitary  Installations; 
Pure  Drugs  and  Foods;  Public  Works  and  Corporations;  Public 
Carriers  and  Sanitation;  Laboratory  Methods  in  Sanitation;  Medi- 
cal Societies  and  Sanitation. 

Bryant,  Louise  Stevens. 

School  Feeding:  Its  History  and  Practice  at 
Home  and  Abroad. 

1913.    310  pp.     Illustrated.  $i-37 

Mrs.  Bryant  has  made  a  careful  study  of  school  feeding  both 
at  home  and  abroad.  In  this  volume  she  gives  a  complete  his- 
tory of  the  movement  in  this  and  other  countries,  but  the  particu- 
lar value  of  the  book  is  in  the  treatment  of  the  present  status  of 
the  movement.  The  effects  of  malnutrition  and  its  causes  are 
thoroughly  dealt  with,  as  are  also  the  food  needs  of  growing 
children.  Of  particular  interest  is  the  chapter  on  underfeeding 
among  American  school  children.  The  facts  therein  set  forth 
will  convince  and  impress  everyone  of  the  need  of  organizing 
cheap  lunches  for  the  school  children  in  an  effective  manner. 

Chapin,  Charles  V.,  M.  D.,  Superintendent  of  Health 
of  the  City  of  Providence. 
Municipal  Sanitation  in  the  United  States.    1901. 
viii  -f-  970  pp.    Illustrated.  $5.00 

Although  this  book  is  not  of  recent  publication,  it  contains  a 
mass  of  material  on  the  administrative  side  of  health  matters  that 
is  of  great  value. 

2X 


HEALTH  AND  SANITATION— Continued 

Children's   Bureau,   United    States   Department   of 
Labor. 
Baby-Saving  Campaigns.     (Infant  Mortality  Se- 
ries, No.  i;  Bureau  Publication  No.  3.)     1913.    93 
pp.  15  cents 

A  preliminary  report  on  what  American  cities  are  doing  to 
prevent  infant  mortality,  which  is  to  be  the  subject  of  an  annual 
bulletin  by  the  Children's  Bureau.  The  present  report  gives  the 
information  gathered  through  answers  to  a  circular  letter  sent  to 
the  mayors  of  the  109  cities  of  the  United  States  each  of  which 
has  a  population  of  at  least  50,000.  Fine  work  is  being  done  in 
some  cities,  and  little  or  nothing  in  others.  The  ways  to  go  about 
such  work  are  here  presented.  Examples  of  circulars  issued 
by  various  health  departments  are  given  in  English,  Italian,  Ger- 
man, Polish,  French,  Hungarian  and  other  languages. 

Cornell,  Walter  S.,  M.  D.,  Director  of  Medical  In- 
spection  of    Public    Schools,    Philadelphia;    Lec- 
turer  on    Child    Hygiene,    University    of    Penn- 
sylvania. 
Health     and     Medical     Inspection     of     School 
Children.     1912.    xiv  +  614  pp.    200  half-tone  and 
line  engravings,  many  of  them  original.  $3.00 

Medical  Inspection,  Hygiene  and  Defects  and  Diseases  are  the 
three  divisions  of  this  study,  which  is  based  on  the  examination 
of  about  35,000  children.  The  first  division  does  not  attempt  to 
review  medical  inspection  in  different  localities,  but  to  explain 
its  principles  and  methods,  with  frequent  reference  to  specific 
illustrations  in  various  places.  Under  Defects  and  Diseases  there 
are  chapters  on  the  eye,  the  nose  and  throat,  the  ear,  the  teeth, 
the  nervous  system,  mental  deficiency,  the  skeleton,  nutrition,  the 
skin  and  infectious  diseases,  dealing  with  each  physical  defect  as 
to  its  definition,  cause,  prevalence,  evidence  and  diagnosis,  and 
treatment.  The  method  of  arrangement  and  the  clearness  of 
language,  with  the  wealth  of  information  and  working  material, 
make  this  an  exceedingly  valuable  book. 

Gerhard,  William  Paul,  C.  E. 

Sanitation  and  Sanitary  Engineering.  1909.  174 
pp.    Illustrated.  $1.50 

Revised  edition  of  "Sanitary  Engineering."  Contents  twice 
the  original  size.  Valuable  for  non-techincal  municipal  officers, 
for  engineers,  architects,  health  officers,  sanitary  inspectors,  etc. 

Gerhard,  William  Paul,  C.  E. 

Water  Supply,  Sewerage  and  Plumbing  of  Mod- 
ern City  Buildings.  1910.  xxxii  +  491  pages. 
214  figures  and  25  diagrams.  $4.00 

The  contents  include:  The  Essential  Features  of  the  Hydraulic 
and  Sanitary  Engineering  of  Buildings;  Sanitary  Fixtures  and 
Appliances;  Advanced  and  Simplified  Plumbing  Methods;  Plumb- 
ing in  Its  Relation  to  Diseases  and  the  Municipal  Control  of 
Plumbing;  Domestic  Water  Supply;  The  Water  Supply  of  Large 
Modern  Buildings;  The  Maintenance  of  Pipe  Systems  for  Sew- 
age, Gas  and  Water;  Rules  on  Plumbing,  Water  Supply,  and 
Sewerage  of  Hospitals  and  Other  Public  Institutions. 

Godfrey,  Hollis. 

The  Health  of  the  City.    191  o.    372  pp.  $1.36 

A  series  of  papers  published  first  in  part  in  the  Atlantic 
Monthly,  designed  to  educate  the  people  of  cities  to  know  what 
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much  of  modern  advance  in  sanitary  science  and  of  all  tested 
means  of  health  protection. 

Gulick,  Luther  Halsey,  and 
Ayres,  Leonard  P. 

Medical  Inspection  of  Schools. 

1913.    xx  -f-  224  pp.  $1.50 

The   first   American   work    on   a    subject    of   prime   importance, 

dealing  with  its  historical,  administrative,  financial  and  statistical 

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medical  inspection  movement  as  it  is  to-day. 

Hoag,  Dr.  Ernest  Bryant. 

The  Health  Index  of  Children.  191 1.  200  pp.  14 
illustrations.  80  cents 

Dr.  Leonard  P.  Ayres,  Associate  Director  of  the  Department 
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HEALTH  AND  SANITATION— Continued 

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than  any  other  book  which  has  yet  appeared." 

Leach,  Albert  E.,  S.  B.,  Analyst  of  the  Massachusetts 
State  Board  of  Health. 
Food  Inspection  and  Analysis.     Second  edition. 

191 1.  xviii  +  954  pp.    Many  illustrations.  $7-5° 

For  the  use  of  public  analysts,  health  officers,  sanitary  chemists 
and  food  economists. 

Kerr,  J.  W.,  Assistant  Surgeon-General,  and 

Moll,  A.  B. 

Organization,  Powers  and  Duties  of  Health 
Authorities.  {Public  Health  Bulletin,  No.  54.) 
August,  1912.    452  -f  v  pp.  25  cents 

An  analysis  of  the  health  laws  and  regulations  in  force  in  the 
United  States.  Covering  the  present  organization  of  state  health 
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appointment,  composition;  powers  and  compensation  of  health 
boards. 

Newsholme,   Arthur,    Medical   Officer   of    Health    of 
Brighton,  England. 
The  Elements  of  Vital  Statistics. 

1912.  Third  edition;  largely  rewritten,  xii  +  353 
pp.    Diagrams.  $3.16 

The  subject  is  divided  into  two  sections:  first,  the  sources  of 
information,  as  the  census  enumerations,  registrations  of  births, 
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formation derived  from  these  sources  is  discussed  in  detail. 

New  York  Milk  Committee. 

Infant  Mortality  and  Milk  Stations.  191 2.  176 
pp.     Many  illustrations  and  tables.  $1.13 

Special  report  of  the  Committee  for  the  Reduction  of  Infant 
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Buffalo.  Other  chapters  show  how  to  establish  and  operate  milk- 
stations  and  how  to  extend  their  activities. 

Parkes,  Louis  C,  M.  C,  D.  P.  H.,  Medical  Officer  of 

Health  of  the  Metropolitan  Borough  of  Chelsea; 

Examiner  in  Public  Health  to  the  Royal  College 

of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  London,  and 

Kenwood,  Henry,  M.  D.,  F.  R.  S.,  D.  Ph.,  Professor 

of    Hygiene    and    Public    Health,    University    of 

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Hygiene  and  Public  Health.    Fourth  edition.    191 1. 

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Chapters  on:  Collection,  Removal  and  Disposal  of  Excretals 
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Ramaley,  Francis,  Ph.  D.,  Professor  of  Biology  in  the 

University  of  Colorado,  and 
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University  of  Colorado. 
Prevention  and  Control   of   Disease.    1913.     386 
PP-  $3.00 

This  volume  is  one  of  the  large  number  on  puMic  health  re- 
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certain  hygienic  considerations,  are  followed  by  others  on  the 
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animal  parasites^  and  microorganisms  in  air,  water  and  food. 
After   a   discussion   of  infection   and   the   spread   of   disease,   and 

23 


HEALTH  AND  SANITATION— Continued 

of  disinfection,  special  diseases  are  taken  up.  There  are  three 
chapters  on  tuberculosis — its  manifestations  and  causes,  its  pre- 
vention and  control,  and  its  cure.  The  book  is  intended  for  the 
general  public  and  for  use  in  college  classes,  not  for  medical 
students,   practicing  physicians  or   biologists. 

Richards,  Ellen  H. 

Conservation  by  Sanitation.    191 1.    xii  -f  305  pp, 
Illustrated.  $2.50 

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piled  from  the  experiences  of  the  last  twenty  years,  the  book 
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wastes.  The  author's  facts  and  figures  in  relation  to  watei 
supply — its  efficiency,  protection  and  regeneration — are  abundanl 
and  convincingly  marshaled.  The  interdependence  of  town  and 
country  is  graphically  shown  in  the  panoramic  view  of  a 
stream's  pollution.  Succeeding  chapters  are  devoted  to  ways  and 
means  of  purifying  water  and  disposing  of  contaminating  wastes. 

Rosenau,  M.  J.,  Professor  of  Preventive  Medicine  anc 
Hygiene,  Harvard  Medical  School. 
The  Milk  Question.    1912.    xiv  -f  309  pp.    30  illus- 
trations. $2.16 

An  important  and  broad  study  of  the  problem  of  securing 
clean,  pure  milk;  comprehensive  in  scope,  treating  the  subject 
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equal  consideration  to  the  claims  of  dairymen,  middlemen  and 
consumers,  and  justifying  the  attention  which  has  made  it  almost 
a  political  issue. 

SOPER,  G.  A. 

Modern  Methods  of  Street  Cleaning.     1909.    201 
pp.     Illustrated.  $3.00 

The  result  of  Dr.  Soper's  personal  experience  in  work  of  this 
kind  under  difficult  circumstances,  and  a  record  of  studies  made 
abroad. 

Stevens,  Edward  F.,  A.  A.  I.  A.,  and 

Casey,  Edward  Pearce,  A.  A.  I.  A.,  and  others. 

Modern  Hospitals.    1912.    Quarto.   49  pp.    Numer- 
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A  series  of  authoritative  articles  on  planning  details  and 
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signed for  the  assistance  of  architects  and  those  concerned  with 
the  superintendence  of  hospitals  and  the  care  of  the  sick. 

Tolman,  William  H.,  Ph.  D.,  Director  American  Mu- 
seum of  Safety,  New  York  City,  and 
Guthrie,    Adelaide   Wood,    Department    of    Research, 
American  Museum  of  Safety. 
Hygiene  for  the  Worker.     (Edited  by  C.  Ward 
Crampton,   M.   D.,   Director   of  Physical   Training, 
Department  of  Education,  New  York  City.)     1912, 
vii  -f-  23r  PP-    Illustrated.  50  cents, 

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lated by  this   unique  textbook. 

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Aspect  of  Typhoid  Fever. 


HEALTH   AND   SANITATION,    Continued— HOUSING 

Wiley,  Harvey  W.,  M.  D.,  Ph.  D. 
Foods  and  Their  Adulteration. 

1912.    xii  +  641  pp.    11  colored  plates  and  87  other 
illustrations.  $4.00 

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simple  tests  for  ordinary  adulterations,  which  intelligent  house- 
wives may  thereby  learn  to  detect. 


Housing 

See  also  City  Planning  and  Garden   Cities 

Allan,  Charles  E.,  M.  A.,  LL.  B.,  and 

Allan,  Francis  J.,  M.  D.,  D.  P.  H.,  Medical  Officer  of 
Health  to  the  City  of  Westminster. 
Housing  of  the  Working  Classes  Acts,  1890-1909, 
and  Town  Planning  Annotated  and  Explained. 
(Published  in  England.)  191 1.  Third  and  revised 
edition.    436  pp.    Duty  extra.  $3.25 

Since  the  publication  of  the  last  edition  of  this  book  two  very 
important  acts  relating  to  the  housing  of  the  working  classes 
have  been  passed,  namely,  the  Housing  of  the  Working  Classes 
Act,  1903,  and  Part  I  of  the  Housing,  Town  Planning,  etc.,  Act, 
1909.  These  two  pieces  of  legislation  are  both  directed  to  the 
amendment  of  the  Housing  of  the  Working  Classes  Act,  1890, 
which,  although  extensively  modified,  still  remains  the  principal 
act.  The  chief  feature  of  this  edition  of  the  book  is  the  inclu- 
sion of  the  Housing  and  Town  Planning  Act,  1909.  The  rules 
and  orders  issued  by  the  Local  Government  Board  in  connection 
with  this  act  are  fully  given  and  explained.  Part  II  relates  to 
town   planning. 

Allen,  J.  Gordon,  Associate  of  Royal  Institute  of  British 
Architects. 
The  Cheap  Cottage  and  Small  House. 
(Preface  by  Lord  Henry  Bentinck,  M.  P.   Published 
in   England.)      1912.     xii  -f-   166  pp.     Many  illus- 
trations.    Duty  extra.  50  cents 

A  manual  of  economical  building.  The  writer  advocates  good 
construction,  and  shows  how  to  obtain  it  at  small  cost  by  careful 
planning,  concentrating  flues,  no  needless  passages,  and  by  care- 
ful choice  of  materials.  The  site  and  water  supply  are  made  of 
first  importance.  The  size  of  the  cottage  is  related  to  the  pos- 
sibilities of  the  neighborhood;  even  the  lodger  is  considered;  the 
materials,  cost  of  construction,  local  by-laws,  gardens,  etc.,  are 
treated  with  the  necessary  fullness,  and  the  excellent  and  varied 
designs  complete  a  book  that  is  of  interest  alike  to  the  landlord, 
the  county  councillor  and  the  social  reformer. 

Chicago  School  of  Civics  and  Philanthropy. 

The  Housing  Problem.  Literature  in  Central 
Chicago  Libraries.  (Bulletin  No.  16.)  July,  1912. 
40  pp.  20  cents 

Listing  710  books  on  housing  and  related  subjects.  The  fol- 
lowing divisions  are  made:  Bibliographies;  Periodicals  and  Col- 
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Planning  and  Garden  Cities  as  Affecting  the  Housing  Problem; 
Public  Regulation  of  Housing  and  City  Planning;  Hygiene  of 
Towns  and  Houses;  Architecture  of  Tenements  and  Small  Resi- 
dences; Land  Question  as  it  Affects  Housing;  Garden  Patches. 
References  to  special  cities  follow  general  works  for  each 
country. 

De  Forest,  Robert  W.,  and 

Veiller,  Lawrence,  Editors. 

The  Tenement  House  Problem. 

2  vols.    986  pp.     84  illustrations  (half-tones,  maps 

and  drawings).  $3.40 

These  volumes  contain  a  general  discussion  of  the  tenement 
house  problem  by  the  editors,  and  a  series  of  brief  articles  on 
housing  and  housing  problems  contributed  «by  men  who  have 
studied  their  subject  in   a  number  of   cities.     Among  these  are: 

25 


HOUSING— Continued 

"Tenement  Reform  in  New  York  Since  1901,"  by  Robert  W. 
De  Forest;  "The  Tenement  House  Problem"  (report  of  the  Com- 
mission) ;  "Housing  Conditions  in  Buffalo,"  by  William  A. 
Douglas  and  Williams  Lansing;  "Back-to-Back  Tenements,"  by 
Lawrence  Veiller;  "Tenement  House  Sanitation,"  by  Albert  L. 
Webster,  C.  E.;  "Small  Houses  for  Working  Men,"  by  H.  L. 
Cargill;  "Tenement  Evils  as  Seen  by  the  Tenants;"  "Tubercu- 
losis and  the  Tenement  House  Problem,"  by  Hermann  M.  Biggs, 
M.  D.;  "Parks  and  Playgrounds  for  Tenement  Districts;"  "Re- 
sults of  Investigations  in  Buffalo  in  1900;"  "Tenement  House 
Rentals;"  "Housing  Conditions  and  Tenement  Laws  in  Leading 
American  Cities."  Schedules,  forms  and  blanks  used  in  the  in- 
vestigations of  the  New  York  Commission  are  given. 

FlTZPATRICK,  F.  W. 

Model  Building  Code.     150  pp.  $1.00 

A  model  building  code  for  municipalities.  It  represents  years 
of  experience  of  practical  contact  with  the  building  code  situation 
of  the  United  States. 

International  Housing  Congress. 

Report  of  the  Ninth  International  Housing  Con- 
gress. Held  in  Vienna,  May  30-June  3,  1910.  191 1. 
Part  I — Papers  Given  at  the  Congress.  1,114  PP- 
Part  II — Organization  of  the  Congress  and  Its 
Transactions.  367  pp.  Delivery  and  duty  extra.    $5.00 

An  exceedingly  valuable  record  of  an  important  conference. 
The  report  is  in  German,  but  each  paper  is  published  in  the 
language  in  which  it  was  presented  to  the  Congress. 

National  Housing  Association. 

Housing  Problems  in  America.  Vol.  I.  (Pro- 
ceedings of  the  First  National  Conference  on  Hous- 
ing June  3-6,  191 1,  New  York  City.)  1912.  x  -f-  254 
pp.  $2.00 

The  papers  presented  are:  "A  Housing  Programme,"  by  Law- 
rence Veiller,  Secretary  National  Housing  Association;  "The 
Problems  of  the  Small  House,"  by  Otto  W.  Davis,  Superintendent 
Associated  Charities,  Columbus,  Ohio;  "Housing  Reform 
Through  Legislation,"  by  Paul  L.  Feiss,  Chairman  Housing  Com- 
mittee, Chamber  of  Commerce,  Cleveland,  Ohio;  "Privy  Vaults," 
by  Charles  B.  Ball,  Chief  Sanitary  Inspector,  Health  Department, 
Chicago;  "City  Planning  and  Housing,"  by  Frederick  Law  Olm- 
sted, President  National  City  Planning  Conference;  "Alleys," 
by  Mrs.  Albion  Fellows  Bacon,  Secretary  Indiana  Housing  Asso- 
ciation; "Law  Enforcement,"  by  Hon.  John  J.  Murphy,  Tene- 
ment House  Commissioner,  New  York  City;  "The  Tenant's  Re- 
sponsibility," by  Miss  Emily  W.  Dinwiddie,  Inspector  of  Dwell- 
ing Houses  of  Trinity  Church  Corporation,  New  York  City; 
"Best  Types  of  Small  Houses,"  by  Miss  Helen  L.  Parrish, 
Director  Octavia  Hill  Association,  Philadelphia;  "Garbage  and 
Rubbish,"  by  Luther  E.  Lovejoy,  Secretary  Housing  Commis- 
sion, Detroit;  "Housing  Conditions  in  Small  Towns,"  by  Elmer 
S.  Forbes,  Chairman  State  Housing  Committee,  Massachusetts 
Civic  League;  "Sanitary  Inspection  of  Tenements,"  by  Edward 
T.  Hartman,  Secretary  Massachusetts  Civic  League.  The  dis- 
cussion on  these  topics  is  also  given,  as  well  as  brief  reports  by 
delegates  to  the  Conference  on  housing  conditions  in  their  own 
communities. 

National  Housing  Association. 

Housing  Problems  in  America.  Vol.  II.  (Pro- 
ceedings of  the  Second  National  Conference  on 
Housing  in  America,  December  4-6,  1912,  Philadel- 
phia. 1913.  xiii  -f  380  pp.  $2.00 
Including  the  following  papers,  with  discussions:  "Health  De- 
partments and  Housing,"  by  Charles  B.  Ball,  Chief  Sanitary  In- 
spector, Health  Department,  Chicago;  "Financing  the  Small 
House,"  by  Lee  Frankel,  Metropolitan  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany, New  York;  "Regulation  by  Law,"  by  Mrs.  Albion  Fellows 
Bacon,  Secretary,  Indiana  Housing  Association;  "Garden  Cities," 
by  Grosvenor  Atterbury,  Fellow  American  Institute  of  Archi- 
tects; "Instructive  Sanitary  Inspection,"  by  Mrs.  Johanna  von 
Wagner,  Housing  Commission,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. ;  "What  Are 
the  Best  Types  of  Wage-Earners'  Houses,"  by  John  Ihlder,  Field 
Secretary,  National  Housing  Association;  "Where  Housing  and 
Town  Planning  Meet,"  by  Andrew  Wright  Crawford,  City  Parks 
Association,  Philadelphia;  "Suburban  and  Rural  Housing,"  by 
Elmer  S.  Forbes,  Chairman,  Housing  Committee,  Massachusetts 
Civic  League;  "Room  Over-Crowding  and  the  Lodger  Evil,"  by 
Lawrence  Veiller,  Secretary,  National  Housing  Association; 
"The  Factory  and  the  Home:  Shall  the  Factory  Go  to  the  Out- 
skirts or  Shall  the  People  Be  Brought  to  the  Center?"  by  John 
Nolen,  Landscape  Architect. 

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HOUSING,  Continued— INITIATIVE 

Nettlefold,  J.  S. 

Practical  Housing.  (Published  in  England.)  194 
pp.    38  illustrations.     Duty  extra.  35  cents 

This  popular  second  edition  deals  with  the  existing  evils  of 
overcrowding  on  English  soil,  and  prescribes  as  a  remedy  intel- 
ligent town  planning.  It  is  abundantly  illustrated  with  town- 
planning  diagrams  and  with  views  showing  the  contrast  between 
unimproved  houses  and  streets  and  their  bettered  condition. 

New  York  City  Tenement  House  Department. 

First  Report  of  the  Tenement  House  Department 
of  the  City  of  New  York.  1902-3.  2  vols.  906 
pp.  $2.90 

This  work  tells  how  New  York  City  dealt  with  the  tenement- 
house  problem,  the  methods  the  newly  organized  department  used 
to  overcome  tremendous  difficulties,  and  the  first  results  of  a 
reform  which  has  provided  the  workers  of  New  York  with  more 
sanitary  living  conditions  than  those  enjoyed  by  the  workers  of 
any  other  American  city  who  live  in  tenement  districts.  It  is 
filled  with  reproductions  of  photographs,  plans,  investigation 
schedules,  etc.,  which  illustrate  graphically  conditions  as  found 
by  the  new  department,  the  means  taken  to  secure  improvement, 
and  some  of  the  results  of  the  first  eighteen  months'  work. 

Unwin,  Raymond. 

Nothing  Gained  by  Overcrowding.  1912.  24  pp. 
Illustrated.     Duty  extra.  10  cents 

Arguing  that  "the  greater  the  number  of  houses  crowded  upon 
the  land,  the  higher  the  rate  which  each  occupier  must  pay  for 
every  yard  of  it  which  his  plot  contains,  the  smaller  will  be 
the  total  return  to  the  owners  of  land  in  increment  value,  and, 
indeed,  the  less  will  be  the  real  economy  in  the  use  of  the  land." 
Presenting  the  argument  by  a  study  of  two  exactly  similar  areas 
of  ground  and  working  out  the  costs  of  development  with  the 
larger  and  the  smaller  number  of  houses  to  the  acre. 

Veiller,  Lawrence. 

Housing  Reform.    1910.    xii  -f-  213  pp.  $1.25 

A  handbook  for  use  in  American  cities.  Describes  housing 
evils  and  their  significance,  and  tells  how  to  start  a  movement 
for  reform,  the  methods  to  be  used  and  the  objects  to  be  sought. 


Initiative,    Referendum   and   Recall 

American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science. 
The  Initiative,  Referendum  and  Recall.  Septem- 
ber, 1912.    v  +  352  pp.        Paper,  $1.00;  cloth,  $1.50 

Articles  by  the  following:  Jonathan  Bourne,  Jr.,  United 
States  Senator  from  Oregon;  George  W.  Guthrie,  formerly 
Mayor  of  Pittsburgh;  Charles  M.  Hollingsworth,  Washington, 
D.  C. ;  John  A.  Lapp,  Legislative  Reference  Librarian,  Indiana 
State  Library;  Henry  Ford  Jones,  Professor  of  Politics,  Prince- 
ton University;  C.  B.  Galbreath,  Secretary  of  the  Ohio  Consti- 
tutional Convention;  William  E.  Rappard,  Instructor  in  Eco- 
nomics, Harvard  University;  John  A.  Fairlie,  Ph.  D.,  Professor 
of  Political  Science,  University  of  Illinois;  J.  William  Black, 
Ph.D.,  Professor  of  History,  Colby  College;  S.  Gale  Lowrie, 
Ph.D.,  of  the  Wisconsin  State  Board  of  Public  Affairs;  Robert 
Crosser,  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  the  Initiative  and  Refer- 
endum (Ohio);  W.  F.  Dodd,  University  of  Illinois;  H.  S.  Gil- 
bertson,  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Short  Ballot  Organization; 
Fred  Wayne  Catlett,  Secretary  to  the  Mayor  of  Seattle;  Rome 
G.  Brown,  attorney-at-law,  Minneapolis;  James  A.  Metcalf,  edi- 
tor, Glendive,  Mont.;  Alpheus  Henry  Snow,  attorney-at-law, 
Washington,  D.  C;  William  Draper  Lewis,  Dean  of  the  Law 
School,  University  of  Pennsylvania. 

Bacon,  Edwin  M.,  and 

Wyman,  Morrill. 

Direct  Elections  and  Law-Making  by  Popular 
Vote;  the  Initiative,  the  Referendum,  the  Recall, 
Commission  Government  for  Cities,  Preferential 
Voting.     1912.    iv  -f-  167  pp.  $1.07 

The  purpose  of  this  little  book  is  to  give  to  citizens  definite 
information,  in  concise  form,  with  regard  to  the  various  electoral 
devices  now  before  the  country  and  already  established  in  a  num- 
ber of  states,  designed  to  secure  direct  legislation  by  popular 
vote  in  place  of  the  methods  of  deliberative  representative  gov- 
ernment.    The  data  are  brought  up  to  the  spring  of  1912. 

27 


INITIA  T IV  E~  Continued 

Beard,  Charles  A.,  and 

Shultz,  B.  E. 

Documents  on  the  State -Wide  Initiative,  Refer- 
endum and  Recall.    1912.    viii  +  394  pp.        $2.12 

This  volume  includes  all  of  the  constitutional  amendments  pro- 
viding for  a  state-wide  system  of  initiative  and  referendum  now 
in  force  or  pending  at  the  election  of  1912,  together  with  the 
enabling  acts  passed  in  the  different  states.  The  introduction 
states  the  relation  of  direct  legislation  to  the  representative  sys- 
tem of  government,  and  the  political  conditions  which  have 
caused  the  adoption  of  the  initiative  and  referendum.  While  no 
attempt  has  been  made  to  go  into  the  subject  of  the  initiative, 
referendum  and  recall  as  applied  to  local  and  municipal  govern- 
ment, some  illustrative  papers  showing  the  system  in  ordinary 
municipalities  and  commission-governed  cities  have  been  included. 

Boyle,  James. 

The  Initiative  and  Referendum:    Its  Folly,  Fal- 
lacies and  Failure. 
1912.    120  pp.  Paper,  35  cents;  doth,  $1.00 

Presenting  "The  Case  Against  the  Initiative  and  Referendum," 
with  chapters  on  "Switzerland's  Experience,"  "The  Muddle  in 
Oregon,"  etc. 

Eaton,  Allen  H. 

The  Oregon  System.    1912.    ix  -f-  195  pp.        $1.07 

The  story  of  direct  legislation  in  Oregon.  A  presentation  of 
the  methods  and  results  of  the  initiative,  referendum  and  recall 
in  Oregon,  with  studies  of  the  measures  accepted  or  rejected, 
and  special  chapters  on  the  direct  primary,  popular  election  of 
senators,  advantages,  defects  and  dangers  of  the  system. 

Lowell,  A.  Lawrence,  President  of  Harvard  University. 
Public  Opinion  and  Popular  Government. 
(American  Citizen  Series.)  1913.  xiv  -f-  415 
pp.  $2.38 

Dealing  with  the  problem  of  transmitting  the  force  of  individual 
opinion  and  preference  into  public  action.  The  author  shows  the 
psychological  forces  leading  to  states  of  mind  which  are  finally 
translated  into  laws  and  decisions,  and  in  Part  III,  on  "Methods 
of  Expressing  Public  Opinion,"  presents  a  study  of  representative 
action  and  of  the  various  forms  of  direct  legislation.  Results  of 
the  referendum  and  initiative  in  Switzerland  and  America  are 
fully  given  in  the  appendices.  The  arrangement  of  the  material 
makes  the  book  available  for  high  school  and  college  classes. 

Munro,  William  Bennett,  Editor. 

The  Initiative,  Referendum  and  Recall 
(National  Municipal  League  Series.)     1912.    viii  -f- 
364  PP.  $1.62 

The  following  is  the  table  of  contents: 
Introductory.     By  the  Editor. 

Nationalism  and  Popular  Rule.     By  Colonel  Theodore  Roosevelt. 
The  Issues  of  Reform.     By  Governor  Woodrow  Wilson. 
The  Development  of  Direct  Legislation  in  America.     By  Robert 

Treat  Paine. 
The   Referendum   in  the   United  States.     By  President  A.   Law- 
rence Lowell. 
Direct    Legislation    as   an    Ally    of    Representative   Government. 

By  Professor  Lewis  Jerome  Johnson. 
Representative  as  Against  Direct   Legislation.     By   Congressman 

Samuel  W.   McCall. 
A  Defense  of  Direct  Legislation.     By  Senator  Jonathan  Bourne,  Jr. 
The    Practical    Workings   of   the    Initiative    and    Referendum    in 

Oregon.     By  Joseph  N.  Teal. 
A  Year  of  the  People's  Rule  in  Oregon.     By  Professor  George 

H.  Haynes. 
The  Unfavorable    Results  of  Direct  Legislation   in   Oregon.     By 

Frederick  V.  Holman. 
The   Use  of   the   Recall   in    the   United   States.     By  Herbert   S. 

Swan. 
The   Recall    as  a  Measure   of   Popular  Control.     By  Thomas  A. 

Davis. 
The  Recall  in  Los  Angeles.     By  Charles  Dwight  Willard. 
The  Recall  in  Seattle.     By  Fred  Wayne  Catlett. 
Sources  and  Literature. 
Appendix    (containing   a  list   of  the   measures   submitted  to   the 

people  of  Oregon  in  the  last  four  elections). 
Index. 

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INITIATIVE,   Continued— INSECT  EXTERMINATION 

The  National  Economic  League. 
The  Initiative  and  Referendum. 
1912.    71  pp.  Paper,  25  cents;  cloth,  50  cents 

Containing  arguments  for  and  against  the  initiative  and  refer- 
endum by  the  following  special  committee  of  the  National  Econo- 
mic League:  For  the  affirmative — Robert  L.  Owen,  United  States 
Senator  from  Oklahoma;  William  Allen  White,  editor  of  the  Em- 
poria (Kan.)  Gazette;  Frederic  C.  Howe,  Director  of  the  Peo- 
ple's Institute  of  New  York;  Lewis  J.  Johnson,  Professor  of  Civil 
Engineering,  Harvard  University.  For  the  negative — George 
Sutherland,  United  States  Senator  from  Utah,  and  Emmet  O'Neal, 
Governor  of  Alabama;  Frederick  P.  Fish,  former  President  of  the 
American  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company;  Charles  F.  A.  Cur- 
rier, Professor  of  History  and  Political  Science,  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology. 

Oberholtzer,  Ellis  Paxson. 

The  Referendum,  Initiative  and  Recall  in 
America.    1912.    513  pp.  $2.40 

When  the  first  edition  of  this  book  was  published  (under  the 
title  of  "The  Referendum  in  America),  the  country  had  had  no 
practical  experience  whatever  with  the  referendum  or  initiative, 
the#  recall  or  the  commission  form  of  government.  Actual  ex- 
periments in  all  these  various  governmental  schemes  in  the 
United  States  are  described  and  their  results  carefully  analyzed 
in  this  new  edition. 

Phelps,  E.  M.,  Editor. 

Selected  Articles  on  the  Initiative  and  Referen- 
dum. (Debaters'  Handbook  Series.)  xxxi  -f-  164 
pp.  $1.00 

Containing  a  bibliography,  a  brief,  and  articles  on  all  phases 
of  the  subject. 

Wilcox,  Delos  F.,  Ph.  D. 

Government  by  All  the  People.  1912.  324  -f 
xi  pp.  $1.62 

The  sub-title  of  this  book — "The  Initiative,  the  Referendum 
and  the  Recall  as  Instruments  of  Democracy" — indicates  its 
scope.  The  book  is  divided  into  five  parts.  Part  I  outlines  some 
of  the  conditions  that  invite  a  partial  revival  of  pure  democracy 
in  the  present  age.  In  Parts  II,  111  and  IV  are  given  the  objec- 
tions to,  and  arguments  in  favor  of,  the  Initiative,  Referendum 
and  Recall.  Part  V  considers  the  general  subject  of  majority 
rule.  There  is  also  an  excellent  index;  and  the  proposed  initia- 
tive and  referendum  constitutional  amendment  in  Ohio  is  printed 
in  an  appendix.  The  book  is  distinctly  favorable  to  "govern- 
ment by  all  the  people,"  and  is  an  exceedingly  valuable  contribu- 
tion to  the  literature  of  "the  irrepressible  conflict  that  lies  be- 
tween two  theories  of  government. 


Insect  Extermination 

Doane,  Rennie  Wilbur,  Assistant  Professor  of  Ento- 
mology in  Stanford  University. 
Insects  and  Disease.     227  pp.     96  original  illus- 
trations. $1.62 

This  non-technical  work  brings  the  most  important  facts,  largely 
from  sources  at  present  inaccessible  to  the  general  reader,  and 
even  to  many  physicians  and  entomologists,  in  regard  to  the  de- 
velopment, habits,  structure,  life  histories  and  methods  of  ex- 
termination  of  the  insects  that  are  concerned. 

The  chapters  are  entitled:  Parasitism  and  Disease ;'  Bacteria 
and  Protozoa;  Ticks  and  Mites;  How  Insects  Cause  or  Carry 
Disease;  House  Flies  or  "Typhoid-flies;"  Mosquitoes;  Mosqui- 
toes and  Malaria;  Mosquitoes  and  Yellow  Fever;  Plague  and 
Fleas;  Other  Diseases,  Mostly  Tropical,  Known  or  Thought  to 
be  Carried  by  Insects. 

Doty,  Alvah  H.,  M.  D. 

The  Mosquito:     Its  Relation  to  Disease  and  Its 
Extermination.  1912.  79  pp.  Illustrated.     82  cents 

A  useful  little  book  describing  the  entire  life  of  the  mosquito 
and  the  means  for  ridding  communities  of  the  pest. 


INSECT  EXTERM'N,  Cont.— LANDSCAPE  ARCHITECTURE 

Hewitt,  C.  G.,  D.  Sc.,  Dominion  Entomologist,  Ottawa, 

Canada.  J4l 

House-Flies    and    How    They    Spread    Disease. 

1912.    xii  -f-  122  pp.    Illustrated.  46  cents 

This  little  book  is  the  result  of  years  of  study  of  the  structure, 
development  and  biology  of  the  fly,  with  especial  reference  to  its 
relation  to  the  dissemination  of  disease.  It  is  written  with  the 
idea  of  influencing  action  to  eradicate  as  far  as  possible  this 
potential  disease  carrier  and  constant  frequenter  of  filth. 

Howard,  L.  O.,  Chief  of  the  United  States  Bureau  of 
Entomology. 
The  House  Fly — Disease  Carrier.     1912.    312  pp. 
41  illustrations.  $^75 

This  is  the  story  of  the  so-called  typhoid  fly.  The  chapters  on 
"The  Carriage  of  Disease  by  Flies"  and  "Remedies  and  Pre- 
ventive Measures,"  are  especially  important.  A  very  profitable 
section  is  the  one  devoted  to  what  women's  clubs,  civic  associa- 
tions, school  boards  and  boards  of  health  may  do  to  exterminate 
the  fly. 

O'Kane,  Walter  C,  Entomologist  to  the  New  Hamp- 
shire Experiment  Station,  and  Professor  of  Eco- 
nomic Entomology  in  New  Hampshire  College. 
Injurious  Insects:    How  to  Recognize  and  Con- 
trol Them.     1912.   xi  -f-  414  pp.     Many  illustra- 
tions. $2.18 

Written  out  of  a  large,  scientific  knowledge,  but  in  a  popular 
style,  this  book  discusses  concisely,  and  yet  fully,  the  characteris- 
tics, life  histories,  and  means  of  control  of  the  more  common 
injurious  insects.  An  unusual  feature  of  the  work  is  the  illus- 
trations, numbering  more  than  600,  which  have  been  prepared 
with  the  purpose  of  showing,  entirely  independently  of  the  text, 
the  characteristic  injurious  stage,  or  the  typical  work  of  the 
insect  where  that  is  characteristic. 

Ross,  Edward  Halford. 

The  Reduction  of  Domestic  Flies.     1913.    viii  + 
103   pp.     Illustrated.  $1.60 

In  this  book  the  nature  of  the  house-fly  is  described — its  life 
and  its  danger  to  human  beings — thereby  to  stimulate  measures 
of  fly-reduction.  The  conduct  of  a  fly-campaign,  as  outlined,  in- 
cludes the  making  of  a  fly-map  showing  the  exact  location  of  every 
breeding-place  of  flies  in  the  town,  and  also  the  compiling  of  a 
fly-directory,  a  process  which  will  teach  inspectors  more  about 
sanitary  conditions  than  they  knew  before.  Dealing  with  the  fly- 
lairs  follows  in  detail,  and  making  the  fly-campaign  an  established 
organization  for  the^  prevention  of  disease.  The  illustrations  add 
much  to  the  emphasis  of  the  text. 


Landscape   Architecture 

See  also  City  Planning,  Garden  Cities, 
Gardens,  etc. 

American  Society  of  Landscape  Architects. 

Transactions  of  The  American  Society  of  Land- 
scape Architects  (1899-1908).  1912.  127  pp.  Illus- 
trated. $2.00 

A  reference  book  on  the  events  and  current  thought  of  the 
Society,  useful  not  only  to  its  members,  but  to  many  others  in- 
terested'in  the  betterment  and  beautification  of  cities.  Containing 
articles  dealing  with  parks,  gardens,  city  planning,  planting,  etc. 
The  editors  of  the  volume  are  Harold  A.  Caparn,  James  Sturgis 
Pray  and  Downing  Vaux. 

Eliot,  Charles  W.,  Editor. 

Charles  Eliot.  Landscape  Architect.  760  pp.  2 
maps.  112  illustrations.  Bound  in  1  vol.,  $3.79; 
bound  in  2  vols.,  $4.33. 

Aside  from  its  autobiographical  interest,  it  is  of  decided  value 
to  students  and  practitioners  of  landscape  art,  and  to  all  persons 
interested  in  the  creation  or  management  of  fine  public  or  private 
estates,  large  or  small.  Containing  unique  notes  of  travel  in 
Europe  and  America  for  landscape,  garden  and  park  study,  it 
teaches  students  of  beauty  on  land  and  water  to  observe  with 
more  intelligence  and  enjoyment,  and  at  the  same  time  furnishes 
much  information  and  innumerable  suggestions. 


LANDSCAPE   ARCHITECTURE— Continued 

Hemenway,  H.  D. 

How  to  Make  Home  and  City  Beautiful.  106  pp. 
Illustrated.  $1.10 

Tells  how  to  plant  a  garden,  test  seeds,  pot  plants,  set  trees, 
make  hotbeds,  and  how  to  care  for  various  plants  and  flowers. 
The  beautifying  of  home  grounds,  grading  and  shrubbery  are 
dealt  with.  There  are  chapters  on  grafting,  plant  enemies, 
spraying,  etc.  The  book  is  written  with  a  view  to  furnishing  in- 
struction and  help  to  those  who  want  to  make  their  homes 
attractive  and  the  city  a  cleaner,  healthier,  better  and  prettier 
place  in  which  to  live. 

Kemp,  Edward. 

Landscape  Gardening;  or,  How  to  Lay  Out  a 
Garden.  New  American  edition,  entirely  revised 
and  in  many  parts  newly  rewritten  by  F.  A.  Waugh, 
Professor  of  Landscape  Gardening,  Massachusetts 
Agricultural  College.  191 1.  292  pp.  100  illus- 
trations. .  $1.61 

Intended  as  a  general  guide  in  choosing,  forming  or  improving 
an  estate  (from  a  quarter  of  an  acre  to  a  hundred  acres  in 
extent),  with  reference  to  both  design  and  execution.  The 
American  edition  is  from  absolutely  new  plates,  with  much  new 
matter,  adapting  the  work  to  conditions  in  North  America,  with 
many  new  illustrations  and  with  old  illustrations  redrawn  and 
newly  engraved. 

Mawson,  Thomas  H. 

Art  and  Craft  of  Garden  Making.  1912-1913. 
Fourth  edition,  x  -f-  404  pp.  435  plans,  sketches 
and  photographs,  and  7  full-page  color  plates.     $20.00 

After  dealing  very  briefly  with  the  history  and  present  posi- 
tion of  garden  design  in  this  country,  the  various  practical  de- 
tails of  garden  formation  are  taken  up  and  described,  from  the 
choice  of  the  site  and  its  general  subdivision  down  to  the  finish- 
ing touches,  such  as  statuary  and  garden  furniture.  Technical 
terms  are  avoided,  and  the  whole  of  the  matter  is  so  written  as 
to  be  equally  serviceable  to  the  landscape  architect  in  general 
practice  or  the  amateur.  The  tasteful  use  and  disposition  of  all 
forms  of  garden  decoration  are  specially  dealt  with.  The  chapter 
on  horticultural  building  covers  the  esthetic  and  practical  details 
of  such  features  in  a  readable  and  concise  way,  and  is  illustrated 
with  plans  and  constructional  drawings.  The  examples  of  garden 
design,  which  conclude  the  volume,  have  been  thoroughly  re- 
vised and  brought  up  to  date,  and  descriptions  of  several  new  and 
exceptionally  interesting  gardens  have  been  added.  The  chapters 
dealing  with  planting  have  been  improved  and  revised. 

Maynard,  Samuel  T.,  formerly  Professor  of  Botany 
and  Horticulture  at  the   Massachusetts  Agricul- 
tural College. 
Landscape     Gardening     as    Applied    to     Home 
Decoration,    xvi  -J-  33§  PP-     168  figures,  including 
many  full-page  half-tones.  $1.50 

The  contents  include:  Landscape  Gardening  and  Home  Orna- 
mentation; Ornamenting  New  Homes;  Preparation  of  the  Land; 
Treesi — Their  Planting  ana  Care;  Shrubs,  Hedges  and  Hardy 
Climbers;  Walks  and  Drives;  Renovating  and  Improving  Old 
Homes;  Country  Roads  and  Roadside  Improvements;  Parks, 
Public  Squares,  School  Yards,  etc.;  Description  of  Trees;  Ever- 
green Trees;  Ornamental  Shrubs;  Hardy  Herbaceous  Plants, 
Tender  Bedding  and  Climbing  Plants,  etc. ;  Aquatic  Plants,  Hardy 
Ferns,  and  Ornamental  Grasses;  Insects  Injurious  to  Orna- 
mentals; The  Home  Fruit  Garden. 

Nolen,  John. 

Repton's  Art  of  Landscape  Gardening.  275  pp. 
Illustrated.  $3.18 

This  volume  is  the  first  of  a  series  of  authoritative  books  pub- 
lished at  the  suggestion  and  with  the  cooperation  of  the  American 
Society  of  Landscape  Architects.  It  includes  Repton's  most  val- 
uable writings  and  illustrations,  and  shows  that  the  art  of  laying 
out  ground  is  founded,  like  all  other  arts,  upon  fixed  principles 
and  not  upon  mere  caprice  and  fashion. 

Parsons,  Samuel. 

Landscape  Gardening  Studies.  107  pp.  32  illus- 
trations. $1.58 

Showing  by  picture  and  pen  how  some  problems  of  landscape 
gardening  were  solved  by  the  author.     These  problems  represent 

31 


LANDSCAPE  ARCHITECTURE,   Continued— LAW 

certain  leading  types  of  work  and  in  a  simple  way  some  of  the 
basis  principles  of  the  art.  No  reference  is  made  to  the  actual 
design  of  architectural  structures,  a  matter  really  outside  the 
domain  of  the  landscape  gardener. 

Underwood,  Loring. 

The  Garden  and  Its  Accessories.     215  pp.     100 
full-page  illustrations.  $1.11 

Designed  to  meet  the  needs  of  people  contemplating  large  im- 
provements, as  well  as  those  of  anyone  planning  inexpensive 
beautifications.  It  deals  with  summer  houses,  arbors,  sun-dials, 
small  decorative  accessories,  fountains  and  pools,  enclosures  and 
building  materials. 

Waugh,    Frank   A.,    Professor    of    Horticulture   and 

Landscape  Gardening,  Massachusetts  Agricultural 

College,  Amherst,  Mass. 

The  Landscape  Beautiful.     336  pp.     49  full-page 

engravings.  $2.15 

A  popular  work  which  argues  for  the  beauty  and  the  utility  of 
the  natural  landscape.  The  works  of  landscape  gardeners  should 
show  the  landscape  at  its  best.  This  book  tells  what  has  been 
accomplished  in  this  field,  especially  in  America. 


Law,  Municipal 


Abbott,  Howard  S. 

Public  Corporations.    1908.    800  pp.  $6.00 

A  brief  book  on  this  subject  has  been  demanded  by  many  of 
the  profession  whose  practice  does  not  warrant  the  purchase  of 
a  more  exhaustive  treatise.  This  volume  has  been  written  with 
Mr.  Abbott's  three-volume  work  on  "Municipal  Corporations" 
as  a  model,  presenting,  the  principles  concisely,  yet  clearly,  and 
taking  great  care  in  the  selection  of  cases  cited. 

Beale,   Joseph    Henry,   Carter    Professor   of   General 
Jurisprudence  in  Harvard  University. 
A  Selection  of  Cases  on  Municipal  Corporations. 
191 1.    xxvii  -f-  686  pp.  $4.00 

This  volume  covers  cases  under  the  following  heads:  The 
Nature  of  Municipal  Corporations;  External  Constitution 
(creation,  alteration,  dissolution  and  legislative  control) ;  Inter- 
nal Constitution  (organization,  legislative  and  administrative  de- 
partments, officers) ;  Powers  of  a  Municipal  Corporation  (general 
principles,  legislative  and  police  power,  power  to  tax,  to  expend 
money,  to  contract,  power  to  acquire,  manage  and  dispose  of 
property);  Liability  (on  contracts  and  for  torts,  including  gen- 
eral principles  of  liability,  negligence  in  executing  governmental 
functions,  in  the  performance  of  municipal  and  commercial  func- 
tions) ;   Remedies. 

Dillon,  John  R,  LL.  D.,  formerly  Circuit  Judge  of  the 

United  States  for  the  Eighth  Judicial  Circuit  and 

Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Iowa. 

The  Law  of  Municipal  Corporations.    191 1.    Fifth 

edition;  thoroughly  revised  and  enlarged  from  two 

to  five  volumes,    lxi  -f-  3064  -f-  738  pp.  $32.50 

A  monumental  work  on  the  subject  of  municipal  corporations, 
being  an  exposition  and  discussion  of  the  principles  of  the  law, 
designed  for  the  practicing  lawyer  and  of  great  value  to  students 
of  municipal  government.  This  new  edition  brings  the  treatment 
of  the  subject  up  to  the  present  condition  of  the  law,  and  con- 
tains more  than  two  and  one-half  times  the  matter  contained  in 
the  fourth  edition.  More  than  40,000  cases  are  cited.  New 
chapters  have  been  added  upon  the  following  subjects:  Public 
Utilities  (including  discussion  of  municipal  trading  and  municipal 
ownership  of  public  utilities,  the  relations  between  the  city  and 
the  grantee  of  franchises,  duties  to  consumers,  regulation  of 
rates,  etc.);  Constitutional  Limitations  of  Municipal  Indebted- 
ness; Special  Legislation;  and  Municipal  Warrants.  Among  the 
new  subjects  discussed  and  treated  in  connection  with  the  exist- 
ing text  are  the  following:  Freeholders'  Charters  (under  recent 
constitutional  provisions  permitting  cities  to  frame  their  own 
charters);  The  Right  of  Local  Self-Government;  Mandatory 
Legislation  as  to  Hours  of  Labor,  Wages  and  Union  Labor  on 
Municipal  Works;  Municipal  Pensions;  Municipal  Civil  Service 
Laws;  Regulation  of  Rates  for  Supply  of  Water,  Gas,  etc.     Ordi- 


LAW,  MUNICIPAL— Continued 

nances  exercising  the  police  power  have  been  treated  in  a  sepa- 
rate chapter,  and  cover  regulations  of  occupations,  intoxicating 
liquids,  health  ordinances,  hospitals,  cemeteries,  nuisances,  mar- 
kets, fire  limits;  also  regulation  of  the  use  and  control  of  private 
property,  regulation  of  height  of  buildings,  of  signs  and  bill- 
boards, of  automobiles,  speed  of  trains,  operation  of  railroads; 
tenement  houses,  suppression  of  the  smoke  nuisance,  removal  and 
disposal  of  garbage  and  refuse  matter  and  dead  animals,  regula- 
tion of  slaughter  houses,  stables,  etc.  The  subject  of  Contracts  is 
treated  separately  from  Municipal  Securities.  To  the  subject  of 
Municipal  Bonds  230  pages  are  devoted,  and  include  new  sec- 
tions dealing  with  the  recent  development  of  the  law.  The 
author  has  for  years  given  to  municipalities  and  investors  about 
200  opinions  annually  on  the  validity  of  municipal  bonds.  The 
subjects  of  Assessments,  Taxation,  Actions,  and  Liabilities,  Ex 
Contractu  and  Ex  Delicto,  are  fully  treated.  The  fifth  volume 
is  given  up  to  the  table  of  cases  cited  and  the  index. 

Elliott,  Charles  B.,  Ph.  D.,  LL.  D. 

Municipal  Corporations.  1910.  Second  edition ; 
revised,  enlarged,  rewritten  and  brought  to  date  by- 
John  E.  Macy,  of  the  Boston  Bar.    364  pp.       $4.00 

A  concise  treatment  of  the  essential  principles  and  rules  of 
law  governing  the  formation,  management,  rights  and  liabilities 
of  public  corporations,  townships,  counties,  school  districts,  in- 
corporated towns,  villages  and  cities.  The  scope  of  the  work  is 
broad,  but  the  volume  of  matter  has  been  reduced  to  the  smallest 
reasonable  compass  by  concise  and  condensed  treatment  of  well- 
settled  subjects.  New  chapters  and  sections  have  been  added 
on  the  creation  of  corporations,  streets  and  highways;  power  to 
contract  and  own  property;  delegation  and  restriction  of  power; 
alienation  of  property,  etc.  Other  alterations  have  been  made 
which  secure  accuracy,  smoothness  and  clearness.  The  order  of 
arrangement  has  been  changed,  the  notes  have  been  enlarged,  old 
citations  verified  and  references  to  the  Reporter  System  and 
others  inserted. 

La  Salle  Extension  University. 

American  Law  and  Procedure.  1912.  14  vols. 
Vols.  I-XII  prepared  under  the  editorial  super- 
vision of  James  Parker  Hall,  A.  B.,  LL.  B.,  Dean  of 
Law  School,  University  of  Chicago;  Vols  XIII-XIV 
by  James  De  Witt  Andrews,  LL.  D.,  formerly  of 
the  Law  Faculty,  Northwestern  University.     $49.00 

This  work  is  designed  to  present  briefly  and  accurately  the  more 
important  principles  of  American  law  in  a  form  which  will  be 
useful  not  only  to  lawyers  but  to  intelligent  readers  without  tech- 
nical legal  training.  The  method  of  treatment  is  by  illustrations 
drawn  from  leading  cases  in  actual  litigation.  Unimportant  de- 
tails are  mentioned  only  briefly,  and  a  system  of  cross-references 
in  articles  upon  related  subjects  avoids  duplication  of  matter. 
Various  technical  matters  are  explained  in  the  introductory 
volume,  in  the  glossary,  and  in  connection  with  each  special  topic. 
Each  volume  contains  a  number  of  simple  concrete  problems,  de- 
signed to  test  the  reader's  comprehension  of  what  he  has  read. 

McQuillin,  Eugene,  of  the  St.  Louis  Bar,  Judge  of  the 
Eighth  Judicial  Circuit. 
Municipal  Corporations.   1912-1913.  6  vols.   $39.00 

This  exhaustive  treatise,  covering  the  rights,  duties  and  liabili- 
ties of  cities,  villages,  townships,  counties  and  all  public  corpora- 
tions, has  been  in  preparation  for  the  last  fifteen  years  and  is 
eminently  a  practical  work  from  every  point  of  view.  It  is  so 
prepared  as  to  render  available  the  rule  of  law,  tersely  stated,  on 
every  proposition  that  has  been  determined  by  the  courts,  and 
shows  clearly  the  essential  facts  to  which  the  legal  principle  has 
been  applied.  The  numerous  judicial  decisions  dealing  with 
every  phase  of  municipal  corporation  law  have  been  studied, 
analyzed  and  compared,  and  the  principles  deduced  therefrom, 
together  with  the  reasons  supporting  them,  wrought  into  text 
and  notes  in  a  form  which  will  prove  most  convenient  and  easily 
accessible.  Speaking  in  the  broadest  sense  possible,  the  work  covers 
every  phase  of  municipal  corporation  law  and  embraces  all  the 
latest  decisions  of  the  courts.  There  will  be  200,000  citations. 
Among  the  leading  topics  thoroughly  treated  may  be  mentioned: 
Legislative  control  of  municipal  corporations;  the  municipal  char- 
ter; municipal  offices  and  officers  and  municipal  departments; 
municipal  ordinances;  public  utilities;  public  improvements  of 
every  nature,  including  special  taxation  and  local  assessments; 
powerof  municipal  corporations;  municipal  bonds,  warrants,  and 
municipal  indebtedness;  public  service  corporations,  municipal 
liability  for  torts;  municipal  liability  for  defective  highways. 
Education,  penal  institutions,  charities  and  correcton  and  many 
other  subjects  are  carefully  treated. 


LAW  MUNICIPAL,  Continued— LIBRARIES 

McQuillin,  Eugene. 

Municipal  Ordinances.     1,000  pp.  $6.00 

A  work  for  lawyers,  municipal  officers,  civil  engineers,  city  con- 
tractors and  students  of  municipal  problems.  This  treatise  pre- 
sents every  phase  of  the  law  of  municipal  ordinances,  including 
charter  authority  to  pass  ordinances  of  every  character;  power 
to  enact  and  enforce  local  police  and  sanitary  regulations;  ordi- 
nances relating  to  local  taxation  and  license  tax;  public  improve- 
ments; privileges,  franchises  and  contracts  to  use  streets  and 
public  ways  by  public  service  companies,  as  for  railroads,  water 
and  gas  pipes,  poles  and  electric  wires,  underground  conduits, 
subways,  etc.;  as  well  as  ordinances  for  the  efficient  control  of 
municipal  government,  its  departments  and  officers.  It  treats  the 
constitutionality  and  validity  of  legislation  of  municipal  councils 
and  boards,  and  methods  for  the  passage,  the  sufficient  record, 
the  repeal  and  amendment  of  municipal  ordinances.  In  a  word, 
it  covers  the  legal  phases  of  matters  affecting  the  daily  life  of  the 
city   population. 

Macy,  John  E.,  LL.  M.,  Professor  of  Law,  Boston  Uni- 
versity Law  School. 
A    Selection   of   Cases   on   Municipal  or   Public 
Corporations.     191 1.    xiv  -f-  503  pp.  $4.00 

A  comprehensive  work  in  which  the  cases  and  their  arrange- 
ment represent  very  careful  research  in  the  process  of  selecting 
representative  cases  from  those  used  at  various  times  in  the 
author's  classes.  An  effort  has  been  made  to  select  cases  which 
present  the  most  fundamental  principles,  and  to  state  the  facts 
of  each  case  so  clearly  as  to  make  the  record  of  definite  value  to 
students. 


Libraries 

American  Library  Association. 

Papers  and  Proceedings  of  the  Thirty-fifth  An- 
nual Meeting  of  the  American  Library  Associa- 
tion. Held  at  Kaaterskill,  N.  Y.,  June  23-28,  1913. 
(Bulletin  of  the  American  Library  Association.) 
July,   1913.     341   pp.  $2.00 

Among  the  papers  and  addresses  contained  in  this  volume  are 
the  following:  "Library  Work  in  Great  Braitain";  "The  Immi- 
grant in  the  Library";  "Immigrants  as  Contributors  to  Library 
Progress";  "The  Man  in  the  Yards";  "What  of  the  Black  and 
Yellow  Races?";  "The  Working  Library  for  the  Artisan  and 
Craftsman";  "The  Woman  on  the  Farm";  "Book  Influences  for 
Defectives  and  Dependents":  "Changing  Conditions  of  Child 
Life";  "How  the  Library  is  Meeting  the  Changing  Conditions"; 
"Normal  Schools  and  Their  Relationship  to  Librarianship";  "The 
Present  Status  of  Reference  Legislative  Work";  "State- Wide  In- 
fluence of  the  State  Library";  "Making  a  Library  Useful  to  Busi- 
ness Men";  "Libraries  in  Business  Organizations";  "The  Munici- 
pal Reference  Library  as  an  Aid  in  City  Administration";  "The 
Friendly  Book";   "How  to   Discourage   Reading." 

Bostwick.  Arthur  E.,  Ph.  D.,  Librarian  St.  Louis  Pub- 
lic Library. 
American  Public  Library. 
394  pp.    Illustrated.  $1.62 

The  book  is  intended  especially  for  the  general  reader  who  is 
unfamiliar  with  the  development  of  the  public  library  in  this 
country;_  for  the  librarian,  the  young  library  assistant  and  the 
student  in  library  training  class,  to  whom  is  presented  a  read- 
able account  of  the  general  aims  and  tendencies  of  American 
library  work.  It  shows  what  our  libraries  are  trying  to  do  and 
how  far  they  have  succeeded  in  doing  it. 

Dana,  John  C. 

A  Library  Primer.    202  pp.    32  illustrations.    $1.09 

This  book  includes  a  discussion  of  agitation  for  and  establish- 
ment and  organization  of  a  public  library.  It  is  a  useful  book 
for  trustees,  librarians,  and,  especially,  for  library  workers  who 
have  not  had  experience  in  a  large  and  well-organized  library. 
Some  of  the  chapter  heads  are:  What  Does  the  Public  Library 
Do  for  a  Community?;  Rooms,  Building,  Fixtures,  Furniture; 
Reference  Books  for  a  Small  Library;  Buying  Books:  The  Pub- 
lic Library  for  the  Public;  Rules  for  Trustees  and  Employees; 
Library  Legislation;  How  Can  the  Library  Assist  the  Schools? 


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LIBRARIES,  Continued— LIGHTING 

Marvin,  Cornelia. 

Small   Library   Buildings.      102  pp.     63   illustra- 
tions. $1.25 

A  collection  of  plans  contributed  by  the  League  of  Library 
Commissions. 

Soule,  Charles  C. 

How  to   Plan  a    Library    Building   for   Library 
Work.    1912.    xxiv  +  403  PP-  $2.50 

The  author  had  an  effective  training  in  library  science,  having 
been  from  1879  until  his  death,  which  occurred  recently,  a  work- 
ing member  of  the  American  Library  Association.  During  the 
last  five  years  -he  was  frequently  called  on  as  an  expert  adviser 
with  librarian  and  architect  on  several  large  new  library  build- 
ings. The  book  is  a  practical  treatise  covering  all  the  points 
that  are  likely  to  come  up  when  a  library  building  is  planned  or 
altered.  The  copious  index,  containing  many  references  to 
sources  of  information,  showing  what  others  who  have  had  ex- 
perience in  building  libraries  have  said,  is  one  of  the  features  of 
the  volume. 

Lighting 

Bell,  Louis,  Ph.  D. 

The  Art  of  Illumination.  19 12.  x  -f  353  pp.  127 
illustrations.  $2.50 

A  treatise  dealing  with  scientific,  as  well  as  artistic,  use  of 
modern  illuminants. 

Bryant,  J.  M.,  and 

Hake,  H.  G. 

Street  Lighting.  (Bulletin  No.  51  of  the  University 
of  Illinois.)     191 1.     64  pp.  35  cents 

This  bulletin  is  designed  to  be  of  assistance  to  central-station 
superintendents  and  to  the  general  public  in  selecting  the  proper 
lamp  and  fixing  the  charge  for  the  same.  It  is  also  designed  to 
be  of  value  to  the  illuminating  engineer  and  to  the  manufacturer, 
and  in  clearing  up,  or  perhaps  in  preventing,  misunderstandings 
which  so  frequently  arise  between  municipalities  and  power  com- 
panies.    Numerous  diagrams  and  tables. 

Horstmann,  Henry,  and 

Tousley,  Victor  H. 

Modern  Electric  Illumination — Theory  and  Prac- 
tice.    1912.     275  pp.     Illustrated.  $2.00 

The  authors  are  both  connected  with  the  Department  of  Elec- 
tricity of  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  the  information  given  is  the 
result  of  years  of  practical  work  in  big  undertakings.  The  book 
is  intended  to  furnish  the  workman,  contractor  and  architect  a 
reliable  working  basis  for  the  installation  and  planning  of  cor- 
rect illuminating  systems,  and  so  to  inform  the  users  of  light  that 
they  can  accurately  decide  on  the  proper  kind  of  lighting  for  any 
building  or  outdoor  use.  Sufficient  theory  is  given  to  insure 
comprehension  of  underlying  principles,  but  especial  emphasis  is 
laid  on  the  practical  points  necessary  to  actual  work  and  plan- 
ning. The  style  is  clear  and  terse,  free  from  technicalities 
Specific  examples  of  successful  work  are  given;  indirect  lighting 
is  explained,  and  there  is  a  chapter  on  selecting  the  proper 
fixtures  to  harmonize  with  any  decoration  or  architecture. 

Illuminating  Engineering  Society. 

Light:  Its  Use  and  Misuse.  1912.  20  pp.  Illus- 
trated. 12  cents 

A  primer  of  illumination,  designed  to  assist  the  user  in  making 
artificial  light  effective,  whether  produced  by  oil,  gas,  electricity 
or  otherwise. 

National  Electric  Light  Association. 

Ornamental  Street  Lighting.  (Designed  and  writ- 
ten by  Waldemar  Kaempffert.)  1912.  48  pp.  Illus- 
trated. 20  cents 

An  attractive  pamphlet  presenting  practical  consideration  of 
the  following  topics:  The  business  side  of  street  lighting;  right 
and  wrong  municipal  lighting;  how  business  and  residential  sec- 
tions should  be  lighted;  how  electric  signs  and  window  lighting 
affect  the  street;  systems  of  ornamental  street  lighting;  what  it 
costs  to  light  a  street;  posts,  old  and  new  standards,  globes,  re- 
flectors and  accessory  apparatus.  Lists  of  cities  that  have  or- 
namental street  lighting,  decorative  arch  lighting  and  arc  in- 
stallations, are  given,  and  others  of  manufacturers  of  ornamen- 
tal posts,  regulators  and  compensative  apparatus,  glassware,  steel 
reflectors  and  incandescent  electric  lamps. 


MARKETS—MUNICIPAL  OWNERSHIP 

Markets,  Municipal 

See  also  articles  in  The  American  City  for   Feb- 
ruary and  April,  1913 

Black,  Mrs.  Elmer,  member  of  the  Advisory  Board  of 
the  New  York  Terminal  Market  Commission. 
A  Terminal  Market  System.     New  York's  Most 
Urgent  Need.    1912.   32  pp.   Illustrated.      25  cents 

The  result  of  an  Investigation  of  markets  on  both  sides  of  the 
Atlantic.  Describing  the  administration  and  management  of 
markets  in  the  British  Isles,  Germany,  France,  Austria-Hungary, 
Holland  and  Belgium,  with  comments  on  New  York  City's  need 
of  a  terminal  market  system. 

Carter,  J.  F.,  Secretary,  San  Antonio  (Texas)  Chamber 
of  Commerce. 
Public    Markets   and    Marketing    Methods.      (In 
The  American  City,  February,  1913.)     18  pp.     Il- 
lustrated. 25  cents 

A  symposium  of  information  received  from  an  inquiry  into 
marketing    conditions   in    seventy-one    American    cities. 

Miller,  Cyrus  C,  President,  Borough  of  the  Bronx. 
Municipal  Market  Policy.    1912.    18  pp.    10  cents 

From  a  speech  before  the  City  Club  of  New  York.  Setting 
forth  the  proper  function  of  the  middleman.  Outlining  market 
conditions  in  a  few  American  cities  and  in  Berlin,  Cologne, 
Budapest,  Vienna,  Paris,  Lyons,  Liverpool,  Glasgow  and  Monte- 
video. Giving  the  main  features  of  a  proposed  distributing 
depot  in  the  Bronx. 

Miller,  Cyrus  C,  Chairman,  Mayor's  Market  Commis- 
sion, New  York  City. 
Wholesale  Terminal  Markets.     (In  The  Ameri- 
can City,  April,  1913.)    9  pp.    Illustrated.      25  cents 

A  new  idea  in  public  markets  for  American  municipalities ; 
interesting  data  on  marketing  methods  in  leading  European  cities. 


Municipal  Ownership 

See  also  Public  Utilities 

Darwin,  Major  Leonard. 

Municipal  Ownership.     149  pp.  $1.32 

Arguments  against  municipal  trading. 

Holcombe,  A.  N.,  Ph.  D.,  Instructor  in  Government  in 
Harvard  University. 
Public  Ownership  of  Telephones  on  the  Conti- 
nent of  Europe.    1911.    xx  -f-  482  pp.  $2.17 

This  volume  is  the  result  of  two  years'  impartial  study  and  in- 
vestigation abroad.  It  has  not  been  written  to  prove  that  any 
one  mode  of  conducting  the  telephone  business  is  the  best  for  all 
countries  and  under  all  circumstances,  but  to  make  available  the 
evidence  upon  which  the  reader  may  form  his  own  opinion  of 
the  value  of  the  various  policies  that  have  been  adopted.  Com- 
parisons  have  been  made  between  American  and  European  condi- 
tions with  the  idea  of  making  clear  the  nature  of  the  European 
situation.  The  sources  of  necessary  evidence  have  been  pains- 
takingly and  thoroughly  searched. 

Howe,  Frederic  C. 

The  British  City:     The  Beginnings  of  Democ- 
racy,    xvi  +  370  pp.  $1.62 

A  study  of  the  administrative  efficiency  of  the  British  city  and 
its  achievements  in  ownership  of  street  railways,  gas,  water 
and  electric  lighting  undertakings.  A  comparison  of  the  cities 
of  Great  Britain  and  America,  and  the  causes  which  have  pro- 
duced efficiency  in  the  former  country. 

Howe,  Frederic  C. 

The  City:     The  Hope  of  Democracy. 

xiii  +  319  pp.  $I#62 

Inspirational  book,  suggesting  the  possibilities  of  the  city  of 
to-morrow  and  the  causes  of  our  present  failures.  It  deals  with 
the  possibilities  of  the  city  when  organized  to  promote  human 
welfare  and  when  it  is  equipped  with  proper  tools  for  expressing 
the  will  of  the  people.  The  book  sprang  from  the  author's  expe- 
rience in  city  administration  in  Cleveland. 


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MUNICIPAL   OWNERSHIP,   Continued— NOISE 

Knoop,  Douglas,  Lecturer  on  Economics  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Sheffield. 
Principles  and  Methods   of   Municipal  Trading. 

1912.    xvii  -f-  4°9  PP«  $34I 

Mr.  Knoop  has  studied  municipal  trading  at  work,  and  has  de- 
voted a  considerable  part  of  his  book  to  an  examination  of  the 
policies  and  methods  commonly  adopted  by  local  authorities  in 
respect  of  their  trading  undertakings. 

Morgan,  J.  E.,  and 
Bullock,  E.  D.,  Editors. 

Selected  Articles  on  Municipal  Ownership.  191 1. 

xxiv  +  219  pp.  $1.00 

Containing  a  bibliography,  a  brief,  and  articles  on  all  phases 
of   the  subject. 

Porter,  Robert  P. 

The  Dangers  of  Municipal  Ownership. 

350  pp.  $1.96 

While  the  writer  is,  frankly,  from  the  title  page,  an  opponent 
of  municipal  ownership  as  it  exists,  he  presents  a  vast  array  of 
interesting  facts  and  figures  to  substantiate  his  position,  citing 
in  detail  results  in  specific  cases  where  municipal  trading  has 
been  tried.  Mr.  Porter  has  illumined  his  facts  and  figures,  and 
the  result  is  a  popular,  readable  and  easily  understood  discussion 
of  the  question. 

Shaw,  Bernard. 

The  Commonsense  of  Municipal  Trading.     191 1. 
xii  -f-  120  pp.  85  cents 

In  favor  of  municipal  socialism. 


Noise,  Unnecessary 

Bell,  Stoughton,  A.  B.,  LL.  B.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Existing  Legal  Provisions  with  Regard  to  the 
Suppression  of  Unnecessary  Noises.  (Reprinted 
from  the  Transactions  of  the  Fifteenth  Interna- 
tional Congress  on  Hygiene  and  Demography,  held 
at  Washington,  D.  C.,  September  23-28,  1912.  5 
pp.  10  cents 

Outlining  some  of  the  general  principles  governing  the  regula- 
tion of  noise,  and  making  suggestions  as  to  preventive  legislation. 
Followed  by  a  brief  discussion  by  Prof.  James  J.  Putnam  of  Bos- 
ton. 

Chicago  Municipal  Reference  Library. 

Anti-Noise  Ordinances  of  Various  Cities.  (Com- 
piled for  the  Committee  on  Health  of  the  Chicago 
City  Council;  Dr.  Willis  tO.  Nance,  Chairman.) 
Typewritten  copy.     1913.     93  pp.  10  cents 

The  ordinances  are  classified  as  having  reference  as  follows: 
(1)  Occupational  Noises;  (2)  By  Motor  Vehicles;  (3)  By  Steam 
Whistles;  (4)  By  Animals  and  Fowls;  (5)  Zones  of  Quiet. 

Morse,  Edward  S.,  Massachusetts. 

The  Steam  Whistle  a  Menace  to  Public  Health. 
(Read  before  the  Massachusetts  Association  of 
Boards  of  Health,  at  Boston,  January  27,  1905.) 
14  PP-  5  cents 

Discussing  such  questions  in  regard  to  the  steam  whistle  as: 
Has  there  been  any  attempt  at  amelioration?  Does  it  depreciate 
real  estate?  Is  it  indictable?  Is  it  necessary?  Can  it  be  sup- 
pressed? 

Morse,  Edward  S.,  Salem,  Mass. 

The  Suppression  of  Unnecessary  Noise.  (Read 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Ninth  International 
Otological  Congress  in  Boston,  August  14,  1912.) 
11  Pp.  5  cents 

Presenting  to  a  body  of  experts  on  the  ear  a  discussion  of  the 
injurious  effects  of  noise  and  a  plea  for  the  legislative  prohibition 
of  all   noise  that  is  avoidable. 

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PARKS   AND   PARKWAYS— POLICE  AND  PRISONS 

Parks   and  Parkways 

See  also  City  Planning,  Garden  Cities,  Land= 
scape  Architecture 

American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science. 
Public  Recreation  Facilities, 
v  -j-  266  pp.  Paper,  $1.00;  cloth  $1.50 

The  contents  are  as  follows:  "The  Parks  and  Recreation  Fa- 
cilities in  the  United  States,"  by  John  Nolen;  "Our  National 
Parks  and  Reservations,"  by  William  Eleroy  Curtis;  "National 
Forests  as  Recreation  Grounds,"  by  Treadwell  Cleveland,  Jr.; 
"Forestry  Policy  of  Typical  States — New  York,"  by  Hon.  Austin 
Cary;  "Forestry  Policy  of  Typical  States — Pennsylvania,"  by 
Hon.  Joseph  T.  Rothrock;  "State  Forests  in  Michigan,"  by  Prof. 
Filibert  Roth;  "Park  System  of  Essex  County,  New  Jersey,"  by 
Frederick  W.  Kelsey;  "The  Park  System  of  Hudson  County, 
New  Jersey,"  by  Walter  G.  Muirheid;  "The  Boston  Metropolitan 
Park  System,"  by  William  B.  De  Las  Casas;  "City  Planning  and 
Philadelphia  Parks,"  by  Andrew  Wright  Crawford;  "The  Park 
Movement  in  Madison,  Wisconsin,"  by  Charles  N.  Brown; 
"Recreation  Developments  in  Chicago  Parks,"  by  Graham 
Romeyn  Taylor;  "Play  and  Social  Progress,"  by  Howard  S. 
Braucher;  "Public  Provision  and  Responsibility  for  Playgrounds," 
by  Henry  S.  Curtis;  "The  Playground  as  a  Social  Center,"  by 
Mrs.  Amalie  Hofer  Jerome;  "Educational  Value  of  Public 
Recreation  Facilities,"  by  Charles  Mulford  Robinson;  "Our 
Recreation  Facilities  and  the  Immigrant,"  by  Victor  Von 
Borosini;  "The  Social  Significance  of  Play,"  by  Otto  T.  Mallery; 
"The  Playground  for  Children  at  Home,"  by  Beulah  Kennard; 
"The  Unused  Assets  of  Our  Public  Recreation  Facilities,"  by 
Benjamin  C.  Marsh;  "Music  and  Refreshments  in  Parks,"  by 
Philip  H.  Goepp;  "The  Appalachian  Mountain  Club,"  by  Prof. 
Charles  E.  Fay;  "The  Southern  Appalachian  Park  Reserve  as  a 
National  Playground,"  by  George  T.  Surface;  "The  Field  and 
Forest  Club  of  Boston,"  by  G.  W.  Lee  and  L.  G.  Howes;  "The 
Sierra  Club,"  by  Marion  Randall  Parsons;  "Recreative  Centers 
of  Los  Angeles,  California,"  by  Bessie  D.  Stoddart;  "The  Colum- 
bia Park  Boys'  Club,  a  Unique  Playground,"  by  Eustace  M. 
Peixotto;  "The  'Heide  Park'  of  the  Society  for  the  Advancement 
of  the  Commonweal  in  Dresden,"  by  Dr.  Wilhelm  Bohmert. 

Weed,  Howard  Evarts,  M.  S.,  Landscape  Architect. 
Modern  Park  Cemeteries.    1912.    145  pp.    21  illus- 
trations. $1.60 

A  condensed  treatment  of  modern  methods  of  laying  out  and 
maintaining  park  cemeteries,  together  with  information  regarding 
burial  customs  and  the  regulation  of  the  use  of  cemeteries. 
"Simplicity  is  the  keynote  of  the  modern  park  cemetery."  The 
chapters  on  "The  Cemetery  plan,"  "General  Construction  Work," 
"Road  Construction"  and  "Landscape  Development"  are  of 
special   interest. 

Police    and    Prisons 

Aschaffenburg,  Gustav,  Professor  of  Psychiatry  in 
the  Cologne  Academy  of  Practical  Medicine. 
Crime  and  Its  Repression.  (Translated  by  Adal- 
bert Albrecht;  with  an  Editorial  Preface  by 
Maurice  Parmelee  and  an  Introduction  by  Arthur 
C.  Train.)  1913.  xxvii  pp.  Tables,  diagrams,  one 
drawing.  $4«I9 

This  volume  is  No.  VI  in  the  Modern  Criminal  Science  Series, 
published  under  the  auspices  of  the  American  Institute  of  Crim- 
inal Law  and  Criminology.  Reliable  penal  and  criminal  statistics 
in  the  United  States  are  not  available;  this  book  has  a  message 
for  all  countries.  Its  author,  one  of  the  most  notable  leaders  of 
thought  in  modern  criminal  science  in  Germany,  applies  social 
statistics  to  theories  of  criminal  law  in  illuminating  and  cautious 
analysis.  In  the  first  two  parts  of  the  book  he  studies  the  social 
and  individual  causes  of  crime  with  a  discriminating,  well-balanced 
mind,  and  in  Part  III  discusses  reforms  and  remedies.  He  be- 
lieves in  abolishing  the  fixed  term  of  punishment  and  in  the  prin- 
ciples of  suspended  sentence  and  probation.  A  closer  understand- 
ing by  the  judge  of  the  criminal  and  the  sort  of  penalty  he  needs 
is  considered  absolutely  essential,  also  that  the  judge  should 
supervise  the  execution  of  the  sentence  and  assist  in  shaping  the 
prisoner's  future.  The  book  is  far  from  prosy.  It  makes  strong 
appeal  to  the  intellect  and  the  wholesome  sympathy  of  the  reader. 
It  urges  as  most  important  the  necessity  for  the  highest  type  of 
prison   officials. 

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POLICE   AND    PRISONS,    Cont.— PUBLIC    UTILITIES 

Fuld,  Leon  hard  Felix,  M.  A.,  LL.  M. 

Police  Administration.     551  pp.  $3.19 

A  critical  study  of  police  systems  in  the  United  States,  with 
comparative  reference  to  similar  organizations  in  other  countries. 
It  is  of  value  to  city  officials  who  wish  to  inform  themselves  as  to 
the  organization,  the  functions  and  the  problems  of  the  police 
force,  and  it  contains  much  material  that  is  sufficiently  non- 
technical and  informing  to  be  of  interest  to  the  average  citizen. 
Twelve  of  the  seventeen  tables  show  the  methods  of  organiza- 
tion, service,  examination,  appointment,  pay,  promotion  and  re- 
moval in  relation  to  75  cities,  with  the  ways  in  which  they  deal 
with  prostitution,  gambling  and  the  liquor  traffic.  The  remain- 
ing five  tables  show  various  record  forms  in  use  in  New  York. 

Henderson,  Charles  Richmond,  Ph.  D.,  Editor. 

Correction  and  Prevention  Series.  Four  volumes 
prepared  for  the  Eighth  International  Prison  Con- 
gress.  1910.   Price  per  set,  $10.00;  per  volume,  $2.70 

The  titles  and  authors  are  as  follows:  Prison  Reform  and 
Criminal  Law.  By  Charles  R.  Henderson,  F.  B.  Sanborn,  F.  H. 
Wines,  Eugene  Smith  and  others;  Penal  and  Reformatory  Insti- 
tutions, by  sixteen  leading  authorities;  Preventive  Agencies  and 
Methods,  by  Charles  Richmond  Henderson,  Ph.D.;  Preventive 
Treatment  of  Neglected  Children,  by  Hastings  H.  Hart. 

Whitlock,  Brand. 

The  Enforcement  of  Law  in  Cities.  19 13.  95 
pp.  81  cents 

A  brief,  comprehensive  discussion  of  present-day  social  and 
moral  conditions  in  American  municipalities.  It  deals  chiefly 
with  the  question  of  present  possibilities  in  civic  reform  as  re- 
lated to  civic  righteousness.  The  opinions  set  forth  in  this  work 
represent  the  mature  conclusions  reached  after  more  than  a  de- 
cade of  actual  contact  with  and  study  of  the  issues  involved. 


Public    Utilities,    Their    Regulation 
and   Valuation 

See  also  Municipal  Ownership 

American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science. 
The  Control  of  Municipal  Public  Service  Cor- 
porations.   746  pp.  Cloth,  $1.50;  paper,  $1.00 

Contains  seventeen  papers  on  the  various  phases  of  the  subject. 

Floy,  Henry,  Consulting  Engineer. 

Valuation    of    Public    Utility    Properties.     19 12. 
viii  +  390  pp.  $5.18 

An  important  point  emphasized  by  this  work  is  that  of  the 
value  of  the  non-physical  part  of  property.  The  author  aims  to 
bring  together  theory  and  practice  in  this  matter,  in  order  to 
determine  a  standard  method  of  procedure.  To  this  end  a  num- 
ber of  examples  of  important  appraisals  are  referred  to  as  estab- 
lishing precedents.  There  is  a  chapter  on  appraisals  of  public 
utility  properties  in  Greater  New  York.  Depreciation  is 
thoroughly  dealt  with,  and  curves  and  tables  give  aid  in  de- 
termining it.  Other  chapters  include  the  following  divisions  of 
the  subject:  Public  service  commissions;  procedure  in  making 
an  appraisal;  structural  costs;  development,  intangible  and  over- 
head expenses  and  non-physical  costs;  franchises,  good- will,  go- 
ing value  and  contracts. 

Foster,  Horatio  A.,  Consulting  Engineer. 

Engineering   Valuation   of   Public   Utilities   and 
Factories.     1912.    xvi  +  345  pp.  $3.19 

Treating  in  an  elementary  way,  which  is  designed  to  show  the 
real  simplicity  of  the  essential  points  of  valuation,  the  methods 
of  making  appraisals  of  public  utilities.  The  opinion  of  Judge 
Savage,  of  Maine,  is  given  in  full,  because  the  author  con- 
siders its  instructions  for  valuation  the  best  he  knows.  Many 
other  quotations  from  court  decisions  are   given  throughout  the 

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PUBLIC   UTILITIES— Continued 


volume,  each  one  to  give  backing  to  a  statement.  Many  forms 
are  given  for  making  accurate  inventories  and  for  the  proper 
presentation  of  data;  some  of  these  are  original  with  the  author, 
and  others  have  been  used  by  the  Joint  Engineering  Staff  of  the 
Wisconsin  Railroad  Commission  and  the  Wisconsin  Tax  Com- 
mission. 

King,  Clyde  Lyndon,  Ph.  D.,  Editor. 

The  Regulation  of  Municipal  Utilities.  (National 
Municipal  League  Series.)    1912.  ix  +  404pp.     $1.63 

Containing  the  most  important  papers  on  the  franchise  problem 
which  have  been  presented  to  the  National  Municipal  League, 
brought  up  to  date  with  considerable  additional  material  by  the 
editor.  Among  the  elements  of  the  problem  as  presented  are 
"Municipal  Ownership  vs.  Adequate  Regulation,"  with  an  illus- 
trative article  on  "The  Minneapolis  Gas  Settlement;"  regulation 
through  franchise,  in  relation  to  gas,  telephones  and  street  rail- 
ways; regulation  through  municipal  utility  commissions,  as  illus- 
trated in  Los  Angeles,  Kansas  City  and  St.  Louis,  and  regulation 
through  state  public  utility  commissions,  as  conducted  in  Massa- 
chusetts, Wisconsin  and  New  York. 

The    National    Civic   Federation.      (Department    on 

Regulation  of  Inter-State. and  Municipal  Utilities.) 

Commission  Regulation  of  Public  Utilities.    1913. 

1,284  pp.  $8.50 

A  compilation  and  analysis  of  the  laws  of  43  states  and  of  the 
Federal  Government  for  the  regulation,  by  central  commissions, 
of  railroads  and  other  public  utilities.  The  information  is  classi- 
fied as  follows:  Jurisdiction  of  Commissions  and  Definitions; 
Organization  of  Commissions;  General  Powers  of  Commissions; 
Basis  of  Rate  Making;  Establishment  and  Change  of  Rates;  Pub- 
licity of  Rates;  Discrimination  in  Rates  and  Service;  Service; 
Safety  of  Operation;  Accounts;  Reports;  Franchises;  Stock  and 
Bond  Issues;  Intercorporate  Relations;  Commission  Procedure  and 
Practice;   Enforcement. 

United  States  Bureau  of  Standards. 

State  and  Municipal  Regulations  for  the  Quality, 
Distribution  and  Testing  of  Illuminating  Gas. 
(Circular  No.  32  of  the  Bureau  of  Standards.) 
April  1,  1912.    133  pp.  20  cents 

Part  I  gives  a  summary  of  the  municipal  gas  ordinances  now 
operative,  presents  a  general  discussion  of  municipal  gas  require- 
ments, and  proposes  an  ordinance  which  has  been  prepared  as  a 
compilation  of  the  best  ordinance  requirements  now  in  force,  as 
determined  by  consultation  with  a  considerable  number  of  well- 
known  engineers  and  inspectors.  Part  II  deals  similarly  with 
state  control  of  gas  questions,  and  proposes  technical  rules  pre- 
pared in  the  same  way  as  the  proposed  ordinance  of  Part  I. 
Part  III  quotes  a  few  of  the  ordinances  now  in  force  in  this 
country,  selected  as  representative  of  recently  enacted  ordinances, 
and  gives  all  portions  of  the  state  gas  laws  now  in  force  which 
are  of  any  considerable  importance  to  the  subjects  considered 
in  this  circular. 

Whitten,  Robert  H.,  Ph.  D. 

Valuation  of  Public  Service  Corporations.  1912. 
xl  +  798  PP.  $5.50 

In  preparing  this  volume,  the  author  has  examined  not  only 
/he  published  decisions  of  courts,  but  the  unpublished  reports  of 
special  masters  in  equity,  the  reports  of  special  arbitrators  and 
appraisal  commissioners  appointed  by  the  courts,  the  decisions 
of  state  railroad  and  public  service  commissions  and  the  reports 
of  appraisers  appointed  by  local  authority.  Very  full  quotations 
from  this  material  are  given,  with  sufficient  additional  informa- 
tion to  give  the  reader  an  accurate  knowledge  of  the  essential 
facts.  Published  law  reports  are  also  quoted  and  annotated  for 
the  aid  of  lawyers,  public  utility  managers,  accountants,  en- 
gineers and  others.  In  connection  with  each  subject  there  is  a 
brief  summary  of  the  law  and  precedents,  with  a  statement  or 
discussion  of  the  economic  principles  involved.  The  closing  chap- 
ter contains  a  bibliography  of  valuation  and  depreciation,  sup- 
plemented by  a  table  of  cases  annotated  so  as  to  indicate  the  im- 
portant topics  of  valuation  treated  in  each  case:.  The  index  has 
been  prepared  with  special  care. 

Wilcox,  Delos  F.,  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Franchises 

of  the  Public  Service  Commission  for  the  First 

District  of  New  York. 

Municipal  Franchises.     In  2  vols,     xx  +  710  pp. 

and  xxi  -f-  885  pp.,  respectively.  Each  $5.18 

The  first  comprehensive  treatise  on  municipal  franchises,  aside 
from    purely  legal   works,   that   has   ever   been   published  in    this 

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PUBLIC    UTILITIES,   Continued— PUBLIC    WORKS 

country.  Volume  One  includes  five  chapters  devoted  to  the 
general  discussion  and  analysis  of  franchise  problems,  followed 
by  sixteen  chapters  devoted  to  a  history  and  description  of  the 
franchise  conditions  in  a  large  number  of  typical  American 
cities,  affecting  electric  light  and  power,  telephone,  telegraph, 
electrical  conduits,  messenger  and  signal  service,  private  water 
plants,  central  heating  establishments,  refrigeration,  pneumatic 
tubes,  oil  pipe  lines,  private  sewer  plants  and  artificial  and 
natural  gas.  Volume  Two  includes  a  part  devoted  to  a  descrip- 
tion of  local  transportation  franchises  in  a  large  number  of 
American  cities.  The  utilities  considered  are  street  railways, 
elevated  railroads,  subways,  interurban  railways,  bridges,  viaducts, 
toll  roads,  depots,  belt  line  railroads,  spur  tracks,  docks,  markets, 
ferries  and  omnibus  lines.  The  chapter  on  "Elements  of  a  Model 
Street  Railway  Franchise"  is  especially  important.  The  discus- 
sion in  the  last  part  of  the  book  relates  to  a  number  of  interesting 
and  important  items  in  the  general  franchise  problem,  such  as 
the  regulation  of  public  utilities  by  state  and  local  commissions, 
franchise  taxation,   capitalization  and  municipal   ownership. 

Wyer,  Samuel  S.,  M.  E.,  Consulting  Engineer,  Colum- 
bus, Ohio. 
Regulation,  Valuation  and  Depreciation  of  Pub- 
lic Utilities.     1913.     313  pp.     47  illustrations.     15 
reference  tables.  $5.00 

A  brief,  concise  treatment  of  the  economic,  engineering  and  le- 
gal facts  regarding  the  relations  between  the  public  and  public 
utilities.  Numerous  quotations  from  expert  opinions  and  judicial 
decisions  are  made,  and  their  sources  are  shown  by  references  to 
the  select  bibliography  in  chapter  16.  The  other  chapter  heads 
are  as  follows:  The  Public  and  the  Public  Utility;  Funda- 
mental Definitions;  Economics  of  Utilitv  Problems;  Governmen- 
tal Power  to  Regulate  Utilities;  Protection  of  Utilities  from  Ad- 
verse Regulation;  Requirements  of  Regulations;  Relief  from  Op- 
pressive Regulation:  Depreciation;  Electrolysis  as  a  Form  of  De- 
preciation; Legal  Status  of  Electrolysis;  Valuation;  Going  Value, 
and  Going  Concern  Value  of  Utilities;  Principles  Governing  Cost 
of  Utility  Service;  Engineering  Data  Pertaining  to  Utility  Regu- 
lation; Valuation  and  Depreciation  Problems;  Reference  data. 


Public   Works 

See  also  Health  and  Sanitation,  Roads  and 

Streets,  Waste  Disposal,  Water  Supply 

and  Water  Works 

Frye,  Albert  I.,  M.  Am.  Soc.  C.  E., 
Civil  Engineers'  Pocketbook. 
1913.    1,658  pp  $5.00 

A  condensed  treatise  on  civil  engineering,  filled  with  data  and 
tables,  imny  of  which  are  now  printed  for  the  first  time. 

McCullough,  Ernest,  M.  W.  S.  E. 

Engineering  Work  in  Small  Cities  and  Towns. 
502  pp.  $3.00 

A  practical  work  for  officials  of  towns  and  cities  of  less  than 
20,000  inhabitants;  useful  for  city  engineers  and  surveyors,  as 
well  as  for  those  having  no  technical  education.  Contains  pro- 
gressive information  and  detailed  instruction  on  the  duties  of  the 
city  engineer,  on  roads  and  streets,  sanitation,  drainage  and 
sewage,  water  supply,  concrete,  contracts  and  specifications,  office 
systems,  city  engineer's  records,  field  work  and  engineering,  and 
miscellaneous  data. 

Maxwell,  W.  H.,  A.  M.I.  C.  E.,  and 

Brown,  J.  T.,  M.  R.  San.  Inst,  Editors. 

The   Encyclopaedia   of   Municipal   and    Sanitary 
Engineering.     1910.    561  pp.    Illustrated.        $10.00 

This  comprehensive  volume  is  intended  to  serve  as  a  handy, 
practical  guide  on  all  matters  connected  with  municipal  and  sani- 
tary engineering  and  administration.  The  information  is  in  dic- 
tionary form,  and  in  order  to  facilitate  reference  the  longer 
articles  are  divided  into  sections,  the  pith  and  scope  of  the  article 
being  indicated  by  an  index  placed  at  the  commencement.  All 
acts  of  Parliament  affecting  a  subject  are  quoted  and  a  very  com- 
plete system  of  cross-referencing  has  been  followed.  Technical 
expressions  are  lucidly  defined  and  the  illustrations  are  numerous 
and  valuable. 

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PUBLIC  WORKS,  Continued— RECREATION 

Merriman,  Mansfield,  Editor-in-Chief. 

American  Civil  Engineers'  Pocket  Book.  (Sec- 
ond edition,  enlarged.)  191 2.  viii  +  1,473  PP- 
1,200  cuts.    500  tables.  $5.00 

This  new  edition  embodies  important  changes  as  follows:  Two 
new  sections,  on  steam  and  electric  engineering,  and  the  con- 
struction and  maintenance  of  highways  and  streets;  additions  to 
the  chapter  on  Earthwork  Computations;  a  revision  of  the  chap- 
ter which  formerly  treated  of  roads  and  railroads,  with  new 
material,  so  that  it  now  treats  entirely  of  steam  and  electric  rail- 
roads; correction  of  errors,  ambiguities  and  deficiencies;  the  in- 
dex revised  and  reset;  23  articles,  43  tables  and  18  cuts  more 
than  in  the  first  edition.  The  section  heads  are:  Mathematical 
Tables;  Surveying,  Geodesy,  Railroad  Location;  Steam  and  Elec- 
tric Railroads;  Materials  of  Construction;  Plain  and  Reinforced 
Concrete;  Masonry,  Foundations,  Earthwork;  Masonry  and  Tim- 
ber Structures;  Steel  Structures;  Hydraulics,  Pumping,  Water 
Power;  Water  Supply,  Sewerage,  Irrigation;  Dams,  Aqueducts, 
Canals,  Shafts,  Tunnels;  Mathematics  and  Mechanics;  Physics, 
Meteorology,  Weights  and  Measures;  Steam  and  Electric  En- 
gineering; Highways  and  Streets. 

Trautwine,  John  C. 

Civil  Engineers'  Pocketbook.  191 1.  Revised  and 
enlarged  edition.     1,257  pp.     Illustrated.  $5.00 

Its  articles  are  not  merely  outlines  of  th*  general  principles 
of  the  several  branches  of  engineering  discussion,  but  are  packed 
close  with  practical  tabular  and  other  information,  carefully 
studied  and  so  arranged  as  to  secure  convenience  for  quick 
reference.  It  is  a  book  designed  for  the  working  engineer  on 
h»s  work.  Rules  are  put  in  the  shape  of  formulas,  which  have 
"the  great  advantage  of  showing  the  whole  operation  at  a  glance, 
of  making  its  whole  principle  more  apparent,  and  of  being  much 
more  convenient  for  reference."  The  most  notable  of  the  new 
features  of  the  revised  edition  is  the  series  of  articles  on  con- 
crete, in  which  special  attention  has  been  given  to  the  rules  and 
results  of  modern  practice  in  concrete  construction. 

Whinery,  S.,   Consulting  Engineer  to  the  Department 
of  Public  Works,  Manhattan. 
Municipal  Public  Works.     241  pp.  $1.62 

Intended  for  the  inexperienced  citizen  official  and  for  the 
urban  citizen.  Of  value  to  the  men  who,  upon  assuming  the 
duties  and  responsibilities  of  public  office,  feel  that  they  are 
deficient  in  the  special  knowledge  necessary  for  them  to  dis- 
charge their  duties  intelligently  and  efficiently.  Technical  treat- 
ment of  subjects  has  been  avoided,  and  statistics  and  details  have 
been  introduced  only  when  they  seemed  necessary  to  illustrate  or 
enforce  the  general  statements. 


Recreation 

See  also  Celebrations,  Civic;  Social  Centers; 
Social  Research  and  Service 

Addams,  Jane. 

The  Spirit  of  Youth  and  the  City  Streets.     162 
pp.  $1.37 

The  first  four  chapters  contain  a  powerful  argument  for  the 
need  of  wholesome  recreation  for  the  young  people  of  our  cities. 
The  concluding  chapters  deal  with  the  effect  of  the  unrelieved 
monotony  of  factory  work  upon  the  child  from  fourteen  years 
upward,  the  harmful  forms  of  revolt  or  the  more  deadly  acquies- 
cence, and  the  inadequacy  of  our  educational  system  to  train 
the  child  with  special  inclinations  or  gifts. 

American  Academy  of  Political  and  Social  Science. 
Public  Recreation  Facilities. 

See  Parks  and  Parkways. 

Angell,  Emmett  Dunn,  Department  of  Physical  Edu- 
cation, University  of  Wisconsin. 
Play.     190  pp.     52  illustrations  from  photographs, 
besides  diagrams.  1.61 

A  careful  selection  of  over  100  games  suitable  for  kinder- 
garten, playground,  schoolroom  and  college,  including  water 
sports,  for  indoors  and  outdoors.  Thirty-two  of  these  games  are 
original  with  the  author,  and  many  of  them  have  been  taught  by 
him  at  the  Harvard  Summer  School  of  Physical  Training. 

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RECREA  TI  ON— Continued 

Bancroft,   Jessie  H.,  Assistant  Director  of   Physical 
Training,  New  York  City  Public  Schools. 
Games  for  the  Playground,  Home,  School  and 
Gymnasium.    456  pp.    23  illustrations.  $1.70 

Designed  not  only  for  home  and  school  work,  but  for  public 
playgrounds,  gymnasiums,  boys'  and  girls'  summer  camps,  adult 
house  parties  and  country  clubs,  settlements,  children's  parties, 
etc.,  at  all  seasons,  indoors  and  out.  The  more  familiar  games 
long  known  in  America  are  supplemented  by  a  wide  variety  of 
games  brought   to   us   by  immigrants. 

Bergquist,   Nils   W.,   Instructor  of   Physical   Culture, 
New  York  City. 
Swedish  Folk  Dances.    78  pp.    Illustrated.       $1.65 

The  directions  indicate  exactly  the  movements  which  accom- 
pany each  measure  of  the  music.  The  music  itself  is  presented 
in  regular  sheet  size,  and,  so  far  as  possible,  facing  the  descrip- 
tion to  whicn  it  belongs.     The  pictures  suggest  correct  costumes. 

Bremner,  Kate  F. 

A  Book  of  Song  Games  and  Ball  Games.    40  pp. 

35  illustrations.  $1.40 

For  playgrounds  and  schools.  A  large  part  of  the  collection 
has  been  taken  from  Sweden.  The  little  songs  that  accompany 
most  of  them  have  been  adapted  for  English-speaking  children 
with  rare  understanding  of  what  really  appeals  to  the  child.  The 
music  is  presented  in  convenient  size.  The  directions  are  con- 
cise and  are  amplified  by  diagrams. 

Burchenal,   Elizabeth,   Chairman   Folk  Dance    Com- 
mittee of  Playground  Association  of  America. 
Dances  of  the  People.     (A  second  volume  of  Folk 
Dances  and  Singing   Games.)      1913.     Quarto.     83 
pp.     Illustrated.  Paper,  $1.50;  cloth,  $2.50 

Twenty-seven  folk  dances  of  England,  Scotland,  Ireland,  Den- 
mark, Sweden,  Germany  and  Swtzerland,  with  the  music;  full 
directions  for  performance,  and  numerous  illustrations. 

BURCHENAL,    ELIZABETH,    and 

Crampton,  C.  Ward,  Compilers. 
Folk  Dance  Music. 
54  pp.  Paper,  $1.00;  cloth,  $2.00 

A  collection  of  76  characteristic  dances  of  the  people  of 
various  nations;  adapted  for  use  in  schools  and  playgrounds  for 
physical  education  and  play. 

Chubb,  Percival,  and  Associates. 

Festivals  and  Plays  in  Schools  and  Elsewhere. 
1912.    xxii  -f-  403  pp.    Illustrated.  $2.14 

After  long  preparation,  the  authors,  who  have  been  leaders  in 
the  American  development  of  festivals,  plays,  and  allied  arts, 
have  completed  a  comprehensive  and  authoritative  work  on  this 
many-sided  subject.  It  has  been  found  impossible  by  any  title  to 
suggest  the  full  scope  of  this  volume.  The  word  "festival,"  as 
commonly  understood,  does  not  cover  the  wide  range  of  activities 
that  are  dealt  with  here.  These  varied  forms  of  festival  involve 
all  the  festal  arts  of  drama  and  pageantry,  song  and  dance,  rite 
and  ceremony;  and  these  call  for  the  lively  cooperation  of  the 
minor  arts  and  crafts,  of  the  history,  and  of  the  folk  lore  and 
legend  which  are  practiced  or  studied  in  the  school.  In  short, 
here  is  a  fruitful  synthesis  of  the  arts  of  civilization.  Practical 
explanations  and  illustrations  are  given  in  the  fullest  measure. 
The  authors  of  the  book  have  worked  out  the  problems  of  festival 
together  as  members  of  the  Festival  Committee  of  the  Ethical 
Culture  School. 

Crampton,  C.  Ward.,  M.  D.,  Director  of  Physical  Train- 
ing, New  York  City. 
The  Folk  Dance  Book.    191 1.    x  -f  82  pp.       $1.65 

Presenting  41  of  the  best  dances  which  have  been  for  genera- 
tions a  part  of  the  life  of  the  people  in  many  of  _  the  older 
European  countries.  Clear  and  easily  followed  directions.  The 
music  to  which  they  are  danced  in  their  native  countries  is  given 
in  form  large  enough  for  convenient  use  at  the  piano. 

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RECREATION- Continued 

Crawford,  Caroline,  Teachers'  College,  Columbia  Uni- 
versity. 

Folk   Dances   and   Games,     x   -j-   82  pp.     With 
frontispiece.  $1.65 

The  author  has  done  much  in  working  out  the  educational 
possibilities  of  the  dance  in  physical  training.  This  is  a  collec- 
tion of  the  dances  she  found  in  their  native  countries. 

Gulick,  Luther  Halsey,  M.  D. 

The  Healthful  Art  of  Dancing.    288  pp.    66  illus- 
trations. $i-55 

This  is  a  volume  upon  the  universality  and  necessity  of 
rhythm  in  human  life,  by  a  distinguished  and  forceful  writer  in 
the  new  movement  for  recreation  and  play  as  a  part  of  education. 

Johnson,  George  E. 

Education  by  Plays  and  Games.     234  pp.     Many 

illustrations.  90  cents 

A  study  of  the  educational  value  of  play,  in  which  140  games 

are  analyzed  and  arranged  in  groups  of  different  grades,  on  the 

basis  of  their  usefulness  in  developing  certain  parts  of  the  mind 

or  certain  parts  of  the  body.     A  good  reading  list  is  appended. 

Leland,  Arthur,  and 
Leland,  Lorna  Higbee. 

Playground   Technique   and   Playcraft.     284  pp. 

206  illustrations,  plans  and  figures.  $2.50 

Deals  with  playground  architecture  and  landscape  gardening, 
instructions  for  grades  and  drainage,  for  playing  surfaces  and 
equipment.  Shows  how  playground  interests  may  include  practical 
forestry  and  gardening,  model  housekeeping  in  a  workman's 
model  home,  and  industrial  play.  Successful  playgrounds  in 
various  places  are  described  and  illustrated.  Index  and  biblio- 
graphy. 

Lincoln,  Mrs.  Jennette  E.  C. 

The  Festival  Book.     1912.    xviii  +  74  PP-    Many 
illustrations.  $1.65 

This  book  is  the  result  of  a  wide  study  of  old  May-Day 
pastimes  and  customs,  and  the  experience  gained  in  adapting 
them  and  actually  presenting  them  at  May-Day  f€tes.  The  ma- 
terial is  conveniently  arranged  and  supplied  with  music,  dia- 
grams of  the  figures,  sketches  of  costumes,  working  drawings  of 
"stage  properties,"  and  many  photographs  of  groups  of  dancers 
in  action  in  full  costume.  In  addition  to  the  traditional  May- 
Day  dances,  revels  and  pantomimes,  a  number  of  the  best  folk 
dances  of  other  nationalities  have  been  introduced.  All  direc- 
tions are  explicit,  clearly  stated  and  easily  followed. 

Lyman,  Edna. 

Story  Telling— What  to  Tell  and  How  to  Tell  It. 
1913.    229  pp.  82  cents 

The  author  has  provided  in  the  most  concise  manner  the  very 
suggestions  which  the  parent  or  teacher  untrained  in  the  tech- 
nique of  the  art  of  story  telling  needs  most  to  know.  In  so  do- 
ing she  has  placed  all  lovers  of  children  under  obligations  to  her. 
The  book  will  bring  to  many  seekers  of  the  inner  path  to  the 
child  life  the  direction  for  which  they  have  wished. 

Mackaye,  Percy. 

The  Civic  Theater  in  Relation  to  the  Redemp- 
tion of  Leisure.     1912.    308  pp.  $1.50 

A  collection  of  public  addresses  and  magazine  articles,  with  three 
hitherto  unpublished  articles  and  a  set  of  appendices,  combined 
in  what  the  author  calls  "A  Book  of  Suggestions."  It  treats  the 
various  aspects  of  the  civic  theater  as  the  solution  of  the  problem 
of  the  producer's  leisure  evenings.  The  author  recognizes  the 
universal  human  craving  for  art,  and  the  constructive  value  of  the 
association  of  men  and  women  in  the  creation  of  art.  The  chap- 
ter on  the  scope  and  organization  of  the  civic  theater  and  the 
one  on  "The  Civic  Functions  of  the  Theater"  are  especially  note- 
worthy. 

Mero,  Everett  B. 

American  Playgrounds. 

400  pp.    125  illustrations.  $2.00 

To  show  the  value  of  recreation  as  a  feature  of  city  service  to 
children  and  grown-ups,  and  to  explain  how  to  construct  and 
equip  a  playground  in  the  broad  sense  of  "recreation  center,"  is 

44 


RECREATION,    Cont -ROADS,    STREETS,    PAVEMENTS 

the  main  object  of  thi«  book.  This  is  accomplished  by  giving  the 
detailed  experience  and  instruction  of  experts,  illustrating  by  an 
account  of  Chicago's  successful  system  of  public  recreation  and  by 
numerous  photographs  and  diagrams  of  playground  equipment 
and  activities. 

National  Board  of  Censorship  of  Motion  Pictures. 
Suggestions  for  a  Model  Ordinance  for  Regu- 
lating Motion  Picture  Theaters. 
1913.    15  pp.  10  cents 

The  National  Board  of  Censorship  has  formulated  these  sug- 
gestions after  studying  the  methods  of  regulation  in  practice  in 
the  United  States  and  foreign  countries.  Most  of  the  sugges- 
tions are  taken  from  the  report  of  the  Commissioner  of  Accounts 
of  New  York  City  and  of  the  Mayor's  Commission  on  Motion 
Pictures.  General  considerations  and  facts  are  first  given,  and 
then  details  of  regulation  applicable  in  all  our  cities.  The  sub- 
ject is  handled  with  full  recognition  of  the  place  which  motion 
pictures  fill  in  the  field  of  public  education. 

Parsons,  Belle  Ragner. 

Plays  and  Games  for  Indoors  and  Out.    xxxvii  -f 

215  pp.    Illustrated.  $1.63 

Physical  exercises  for  the  classroom,  playground  and  gym- 
nasium. Stimulating  the  children's  imagination  by  imitating  the 
activities  of  nature  and  of  the  industrial,  social,  heroic  and  his- 
toric life  of  man. 

Stecher,  William  A.,  B.  S.  G.,  Director  of  Physical 
Education  in  the  Philadelphia  Public  Schools. 
Games  and  Dances.     1912.    xv   -f-  165  pp.     Illus- 
trated. $i-37 

The  plan  followed  by  this  book  is  to  present  collectively  games 
and  dances  suitable  for  children  or  adults  of  each  particular 
school  grade  or  age  group.  This  procedure  places  in  the  hands 
of  a  teacher  a  graded  selection  of  games  and  dances,  arranged 
in  nine  progressive  grades.  Games  marked  (R)  can  be  played 
in  a  room  as  well  as  in  a  playground.  In  an  appendix  a  limited 
number  of  "quiet  games"  and  "problems"  for  hot  weather  is 
presented,  following  which  is  a  list  of  track  and  field  events 
which  may  be  undertaken  in  the  average  playground.  Con- 
nected with  this  is  a  record  of  the  tests  which  the  average  boy 
and  girl  should  attain.  Last  come  three  selections  of  exercises 
suitable   for   mass   drills   on   play-days   or   field  days. 

Stecher,  William  A. 

Handbooks  of  Lessons  in  Physical  Training  and 
Games.    In  three  parts.     Over  60  pp.  each. 
Part  I  (over  30  illustrations.  35  cents 

Part  II  (over  75  illustrations).  35  cents 

Part  III  (over  75  illustrations).  50  cents 

Prepared  by  a  teacher  who  by  years  of  personal  experience 
knows  the  needs  of  the  class  teacher.  While  not  prepared  spe- 
cifically for  the  professional  teacher  of  gymnastics,  the  lessons 
will  be  found  valuable  in  association  and  society  work.  A  list 
of  serviceable  play  apparatus  suitable  for  school  yards  is  given. 


Roads,   Streets  and   Pavements 

See  also  City  Planning 

American  Highway  Association. 

Good  Roads  Year  Book.     (Edited  by  J.  E.  Penny- 
packer.)     1913.    xii  +  548  pp.    Illustrated.        $1.00 

This  volume  summarizes  important  data  on  road  legislation, 
construction  and  maintenance,  presented  in  non-technical  form. 
It  is  an  excellent  reference  book  and  guide  to  further  reading  as 
suggested  in  the  bibliographies  given.  The  chapter  on  bond 
issues  is  based  upon  reports  from  more  than  SO  per  cent  of  the 
counties  in  the  United  States,  and  has  been  compiled  and  checked 
with  great  care.  The  chapter  on  "Road  Systems  of  Foreign 
Countries"  is  a  feature  not  heretofore  treated  in  the  Year  Book. 
The  various  progress  reports  from  state  highway  departments 
bring  out   some  interesting  points. 

45 


ROADS,    STREETS    AND    PAVEMENTS— Continued 

American  Road  Builders'  Association. 

Proceedings    of   the   Ninth   Annual   Convention 

(held  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  December  3-6,  1912), 
together  with  Reports  of  the  Executive  Committee, 
Secretary  and  Treasurer.  (Presented  at  the  an- 
nual meeting,  February  7,  1913.)  1913.  315  pp. 
1  illustration.  $2.00 

t  The  book  contains  also  the  revised  constitution  of  the  Asso- 
ciation. The  following  papers  are  given:  "Organization  of  a 
State  Highway  Department,"  by  Major  W.  W.  Crosby;  "The 
Organization  of  a  Highway  Department  for  a  Large  City,"  by 
William  H.  Connell;  "County  and  Township  Organization  of 
Highway  Work,"  by  A.  N.  Johnson;  "Bituminous  Pavements  for 
City  Streets,"  by  George  W.  Tillson;  "Creosoted  Wood  Block 
Pavement  in  the  City  of  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  as  Laid  by  the 
City  by  Day  Labor,"  by  Ellis  R.  Dutton;  "Cuts  in  Newly-Paved 


Streets,"  by  Tames  E.  Barlow;  "The  Development  of  a  Plan  for 
a  State  Road  System,"  by  James  R.  Marker;  "The  Contractor's 
Point  of  View,"   by   Hugh   Murphy;    "Plant   Equipment,"   by  F. 


E.  Ellis;  "Some  Features  of  Macadam  Construction,"  by  T.  R. 
Agg;  "Earth  and  Gravel  Roads,"  bv  Robert  C.  Terrell;  "High- 
way Bridges  and  Culverts,"  by  W.  A.  McLean;  "The  Economics 
of  Highway  Construction,"  by  Clifford  Richardson;  "The  Traffic 
Census  as  a  Preliminary  to  Road  Improvement,"  by  Col.  William 
D.  Sohier;  "The  Laying  of  One  Hundred  and  Two  Miles  of 
Smooth  Road  Surface  in  One  Borough  in  Five  Months,"  by 
G.  Howland  Leavitt.  There  is  interesting  and  illuminating  dis- 
cussion on  these  papers  and  on  the  following  topics:  "Convict 
Labor  on  Road  Work";  Division  of  Expense  of  Road  Improve- 
ment Over  Town  or  Similar  Local  Unit,  County,  State  or  Na- 
tion"; "Correction  of  Alignment  and  Grade  in  Existing  High- 
ways";   "Dust    Prevention." 

Blanchard,  Arthur  H.,  C.   E.,  A.   M.,  Professor  of 
Highway  Engineering  in  Columbia  University,  and 
Drowne,  Henry  B.,  C.  K,  Instructor  in  Highway  Engi- 
neering in  Columbia  University. 
Highway  Engineering.    As  Presented  at  the  Sec- 
ond  International   Road    Congress,   Brussels,    1910. 
191 1.    x  -f  299  pp.  $2.00 

The  material  has  been  grouped  by  countries  under  headings 
familiar  to  American  engineers,  such  as  foundation  and  drain- 
age, bituminous  surfaces  and  pavements,  road  machinery  and 
tools,  garbage  removal,  cleaning  and  watering,  pipe  systems  in 
roads  and  streets,  etc.  This  gives  a  comprehensive  review  of  en- 
gineering methods  in  various  parts  of  the  world. 

Blanchard,  Arthur  H.,  and 

Drowne,  Henry  B. 

Text-Book  on  Highway  Engineering.    1913.    xiii 
-\-762  pp.     234  illustrations;  4  charts.  $4.50 

This_  book  treats  all  phases  of  modern  highway  engineering. 
It  is  intended  primarily  for  the  use  of  students  and  teachers, 
and  the  subject-matter  is  chosen  and  arranged  to  cover  for  them 
the  principles  and  practice  of  the  best  authorities.  It  contains 
also  sufficient  material  to  serve  as  a  comprehensive  reference 
book  for  experienced  engineers.^  There  are  two  hundred  and 
forty  pages  devoted  to  the  subject  of  bituminous  materials  and 
their  use  in  roads  and  pavements.  Expert  views  on  special  sub- 
jects are  given,  and  practice  throughout  the  United  States  is 
represented  in  the  standard  specifications  and  reports  of  National 
societies  quoted. 

Frost,  Harwood,  B.  A.  Sc. 

The  Art  of  Roadmaking.     1910.     544  pp.     Illus- 
trated. $3.00 

In  the  comparatively  small  space  of  this  book  is  condensed 
a  history  of  roadbuilding  and  a  review  of  the  fundamental  and 
essential  principles  of  the  roadbuilder's  art  as  it  has  been  re- 
corded by  the  most  reliable  authorities.  The  reader  who  is  un- 
acquainted with  the  subject  is  given  a  good  general  knowledge 
of  it,  and  the  technical  man  is  furnished  an  outline  of  the 
principal  facts  and  a  statement  of  where  further  specialized 
information  may  be  found. 

Harger,  Wilson  G.,  and 

Bonney,  Edmund  A. 

Handbook  for  Highway  Engineers.    191 2.    xiv  -f- 
493  PP-    Illustrated.  $3.00 

This  is  a  book  for  the  roadbuilder,  taking  up  "the  theory  of 
design"    and    "the    practice   of    design    and  construction"   of  the 
more  expensive  types   of  road  construction    in    New   York,   with 
detailed  accounts  of  work  in  other  places. 
46 


ROADS,   STREETS   AND   PAVEMENTS— Continued 

Hubbard,  Prevost,  Assistant  Chemist  of  the  Office  of 
Public  Roads,  U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture. 
Dust  Preventives  and  Road  Binders.    1910.    vii  + 
416  pp.    Illustrated.  $3'00 

Designed  to  give  road  engineers  a  working  knowledge  of  the 
characteristic  properties  of  dust  prevention  and  road  binders  in 
use,  and  how  to  select  and  apply  them. 

Judson,  William  P. 

City  Roads  and  Pavements.    1909.    Fourth  edition. 
197  pp.  $2.00 

A  treatise  on  roads  and  pavements  suited  to  cities  of  moderate 
size. 

JUDSON,  W.  P. 

Road  Preservation  and  Dust  Prevention.     1908. 
144  pp.    Illustrated.  $1.50 

Methods,  costs  and  tests  on  preservation  of  surface  and  the 
prevention  of  dust  on  roads. 

Page,  Logan  Waller,  Director  United  States  Office  of 
Public  Roads. 
Roads,  Paths  and  Bridges.     1912.  263  pp.     Illus- 
trated. $1.10 

It  is  the  purpose  of  this  book  to  give  in  a  concise  and  ele- 
mentary form  the  fundamental  principles  governing  the  con- 
struction of  roads,  paths  and  bridges  for  farm  and  neighborhood 
purposes,  and  to  set  forth  the  details  of  construction  and  main- 
tenance so  that  they  may  be  followed  without  great  difficulty. 

Richardson,  Clifford,  Consulting  Engineer. 

Asphalt  Construction  for  Pavements  and  High- 
ways.    1913.    ix  -{-  155  pp.     Illustrated.  $2.00 

A  pocket-book  of  reference  for  engineers,  contractors  and  in- 
spectors. The  instructions  given  are  based  on  the  writer's  ex- 
periences and  observations  through  many  -years,  and  include  a 
statement  of  the  procedure  to  be  followed  to  secure  a  sheet  as- 
phalt surface  that  will  resist  the  most  trying  conditions.  Heavy 
travel  and  continued  moisture  made  such  construction  a  difficult 
problem  in  London,  when  the  author  undertook,  in  1894,  to  super- 
vise the  introduction  there  of  the  American  type  of  sheet  asphalt 
pavement,  but  the  essential  principles  of  successful  methods  were 
determined  and  pavements  laid  in  accordance  with  these  prin- 
ciples are  said  to  have  given  entire  satisfaction.  This  handbook 
makes  the  information  available  in  convenient,  direct  and  simple 
form  for  engineers  and  contractors  of  limited  experience. 

Robinson,  Charles  Mulforb. 

The  Width  and  Arrangement  of  Streets.     191 1. 

199  pp.    43  illustrations.  $2.00 

The  message  which  Mr.  Robinson  gives  us  in  his  latest  book 
represents  the  beliefs  of  students  of  town  planning  in  all  coun- 
tries, and  shows  conclusively  that  no  one  street  pattern  can  serve 
all  cities — industrial,  commercial,  capital  or  residential — equally 
well.  The  first  few  chapters  point  out  the  defects  of  street  de- 
sign which  make  it  impossible  for  a  city  to  do  its  work  efficiently: 
the  rest  of  the  book  shows  better  ways  of  planning. 

Spalding,  Frederick  P.,  Professor  of  Civil  Engineering, 
University  of  Missouri. 
A  Text-Book  on  Roads  and  Pavements.     1912. 
xi  -f-  408  pp.     Illustrated.  $2.00 

The  new  editions  of  this  work  have  brought  it  up  to  date  in 
dealing  with  the  problems  due  to  new  kinds  of  traffic  and  the 
public  demand  for  more  careful  and  scientific  study  of  materials 
and  methods.  In  the  present  edition  there  are  new  chapters  on 
bituminous  macadam  and  concrete  pavements,  and  changes  have 
been  made  in  the  chapters  on  brick,  asphalt  and  wood  pavements. 
The  style  of  the  book  is  simple  and  direct.  Its  purpose  is  to 
discuss  from  the  engineering  standpoint  the  elementary  principles 
of  successful  highway  construction  and  to  outline  the  more  im- 
portant systems  in  use,  rather  than  to  give  a  mass  of  detailed 
examples  and  statistics  of  such  work.  Two  chapters  deal  with 
the  location,  improvement  and  maintenance  of  country  roads. 

Tillson,  George  W.,  C.  E. 

Street  Pavements   and  Paving  Materials.     1912. 

xii  +  532  pp.    60  illustrations.  $4.00 

A  manual  of  city  pavements,  giving  the  methods  and  materials 

of   their   construction.     For   the    use    of   students,    engineers   and 

city  officials. 

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ROADS,    STREETS    AND    PAVEMENTS,    Cont.— SCHOOLS 

Whinery,  S. 

Specifications  for  Street  Roadway  Pavements. 
1913.  Second  edition ;  revised,  enlarged  and  entirely 
reset,    x  -f-  116  pp.  $1.00 

Part  II  of  this  new  edition  includes  "Instruction  to  Inspec- 
tors on  Street  Paving  Work,"  covering  28  pages.  Originally  pre- 
pared for  a  definite  city,  these  instructions  have  been  in  part 
rewritten _  in  more  general  form,  with  the  purpose  of  suggesting 
to  municipal  engineers  points  that  need  to  be  covered  in  any 
city.  To  the  main  part  of  the  volume  have  been  added  specifi- 
cations for  two  comparatively  new  kinds  of  roadway  pavement — 
bituminous  concrete  and  hydraulic  concrete — and  for  concrete 
sidewalk    and    concrete    combined    curb    and    gutter. 

Wood,  Francis,  Borough  Surveyor  of  Fulham,  England. 
Modern  Road  Construction,  xi  -j-  137  pp.  Illus- 
trated. $1.50 

The  Engineering   News  says: 

"The  book  presents  in  an  extremely  satisfactory  way  the  re- 
sults of  recent  experience  in  the  construction  of  highways  in 
meeting  the  conditions  which  modern  traffic  imposes  upon  the 
highway  engineer,  both  in  town  and  country,  and  it  is  but  fair 
to  say  that  no  book  of  its  kind  has  presented  the  matter  in  a 
more  concise  form  and  more  satisfactorily.  The  opinions  which 
the  author  expresses  are  plainly  founded  upon  a  practical  expe- 
rience in  England,  and  are  applicable  to  conditions  existing  in 
the  United  States.  They  are  generally  sound,  and  the  book  can 
be  highly  recommended  to  every  one  who  is  interested  in  the  road 
problem  as  it  exists  to-day." 


Schools 

See  also  Child  Welfare;  Health  and  Sanitation, 

Public;  Recreation;  Social  Centers;  and 

Text  Books  on  Civics 

Ayres,  Leonard  P.,  Ph.  D. 

Open-Air  Schools.     Illustrated.     171  pp.  $1.32 

The  material  is  taken  largely  from  reports  of  schools  in  Ger- 
many, England  and  America,  and  the  methods  and  results  of  each 
are  described.  The  chapters  on  Cost,  Construction  and  Cloth- 
ing and  Record-Making  are  distinct  contributions  to  our  practical 
information  on  this  subject,  and  the  bibliography  of  magazine 
articles  and  reports  in  English  and  German  is  valuable. 

Burks,  Frances  Williston,  and 

Burks,  Jesse  D.,  Director,  Bureau  of  Municipal  Re- 
search, Philadelphia. 
Health  and  the  School.  (With  an  introduction  by 
Frank  M.  McMurry,  Professor  of  Elementary  Edu- 
cation, Teachers  College,  New  York.)  191 3.  xx 
+  393  PP-    Illustrated.  $1.62 

An  attractive  and  interesting  presentation  of  health  facts  and 
their  application,  given  in  conversational  form  by  a  group  of 
typical  citizens  in  conference  about  school  and  family  health 
affairs.  These  persons  are:  the  superintendent  of  schools;  a  mem- 
ber of  the  school  board;  a  self-made  business  man  and  his  su- 
perior wife;  a  social  worker;  and  a  physician.  Each  investiga- 
tion and  reform  credited  to  these  persons  is  said  to  have  taken 
place  in  some  town,  and  every  statistical  item  reported  to  have 
been  secured  through  actual  investigation  in  various  cities  and 
States.  The  suggested  conference  method  of  procedure  will  be 
helpful  to  communities  that  do  not  know  how  to  begin  work. 
Numerous  references  fot    further  reading  are  given. 

Chancellor,  William  Estabrook. 

Our  City  Schools;  Their  Direction  and  Manage- 
ment, vii  -f  338  pp.  $1.25 
The  author  indicates  a  new  point  of  view  and  a  wider  horizon 
than  are  found  in  the  numerous  works  on  educational  questions 
that  have  appeared  in  recent  years.  He  addresses  all  persons 
in  any  way  concerned  with  American  schools.  He  has  had  ex- 
perience in  the  blundering  ways  in  which  the  educational  in- 
terests of  a  democratic  people  are  often  administered,  and  the 
practical  wisdom  he  has  distilled  therefrom  should  be  profitable 
to  members  of  educational  boards,  superintendents,  principals  and 
others.     His  belief  is   that  "the  hope  of  good   schools   does  not 

43  . 


SCHOOLS— Continued 

rest  in  boards  of  education,  but  in  the  educational  policy  of  the 
general  public,"  which  it  depends  upon  the  superintendent  to 
develop  and  lead. 

Denison,  Elsa. 

Helping  School  Children.     1912.     xxi  -f-  349  pp. 
Illustrated.  $i-53 

It  gives  hitherto  unsought  information  concerning  all  parts  of 
the  country  and  all  kinds  of  contact  with  schools;  to  its 
preparation  have  contributed  350  city  and  state  superintendents 
of  instruction  and  650  business  men,  club  women,  physicians, 
dentists,  ministers  and  editors.  It  is  itself  a  volunteer  study, 
and  suggests  numerous  kinds  of  profitable  activity  for  thousands 
of  college  graduates  and  other  citizens  who  have  a  super-interest 
in  public  welfare;  it  illuminates  from  many  angles  the  intimate 
connection  of  public  schools  with  two  other  vast  fields^— a  private 
giving  for  public  purposes  and  general  government  efficiency.  Its 
message  and  its  facts  are  needed  wherever  there  is  a  public 
school  or  a  civic  organization. 

Dresslar,  Fletcher  B.,  Ph.  D.,  Specialist  in  School 
Hygiene  and  School  Sanitation,  United  States 
Bureau  of  Education. 

School  Hygiene. 

1913.    xi  +  369  pp.     Illustrated.  $1.38 

This  book  is  not  written  for  the  specialist  in  school  hygiene, 
but  presents  to  teachers,  in  a  simple  and  untechnical  form,  the 
most  important  requirements  for  wholesome,  healthful  school  life. 
The  chapter  heads  are  as  follows:  The  Meaning  of  Hygiene  and 
Its  Relation  to  Education;  Play  and  Playgrounds;  Location  and 
Constructioji  of  School  Buildings;  Lighting  of  Schoolhouses; 
School  Desks;  School  Baths;  Convenient  and  Sanitary  Water 
Supply  for  School  Buildings-  Drinking  Cups  and  Drinking  Foun- 
tains; Toilets  for  Schools;  The  Need  of  Pure  Air;  Ventilation; 
Open-Air  Schools;  Heating  of  Schoolrooms;  Humidity  in  the 
Schoolroom;  Eye  Defects  and  School  Conditions;  The  Hearing  of 
School  Children;  The  Teeth  of  School  Children;  Stuttering; 
Fatigue;  Hygiene  of  Instruction;  The  Care  of  Exceptional  Chil- 
dren; Medical  Inspection  of  School  Children;  Hygiene  of  School 
Utensils  and  Books;  Cleaning  Schoolrooms;  Qualifications  and 
Duties  of  a  School  Janitor;  Disinfectants;  Topics  for  further 
study  follow  each  chapter,  with  a  list  of  selected  references. 

Gilbert,  Charles  B.,  Formerly  Superintendent  of 
Schools  of  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  Newark,  N.  J.,  and 
Rochester,   N.  Y. 

What   Children   Study   and   Why.     1913.     vi  + 
33L  $i-5o 

In  the  Preface  the  author  says:  "What  particular  gift  has  each 
of  the  conventional  school  studies  to  bestow  upon  the  children, 
and  hence  upon  society,  as  justification  for  its  place  in  the  curri- 
culum and  as  compensation  for  the  labor,  the  tears,  the  time  of 
the  students,  and  the  care,  the  effort  and  the  financial  expendi- 
tures of  the  community?  These  are  questions  that  should  be 
answered  by  teachers,  parents  and  public  officials,  if  the  best 
results  are  to   be   obtained  from  the   schools." 

The  book  deals  with  present  conditions  in  elementary  schools, 
and  criticises  helpfully  the  traditional  course  of  study.  Its  dis- 
cussions are  fresh,  enlivening  and  practical,  and  show  how  to  re- 
late all  teaching  to  the  lives  of  the  pupils. 

Gregory,  B.  C.,  Late  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  Tren- 
ton, N.  J.,  and  in  Chelsea,  Mass. 
Better  Schools.    Edited  by  James  L.  Hughes,  Chief 
Inspector  of  Schools,  Toronto,  Canada.     1912.     vii 
+  283  pp.  $1.35 

Dr.  Gregory  believed  that  the  child  is  far  more  important  in 
school  life  than  the  knowledge  given  him,  and  that  children  de- 
velop only  by  self-activity.  This  collection  of  articles  by  him 
deals  with  the  necessity  of  coordinating  school  work  with  the 
world's  life  and  work.  In  summing  up,  the  author  says:  "No 
child  is  truly  educated  unless  he  has  been  trained  to  produce 
and  achieve,  and  has  the  tendency  to  produce  and  achieve 
well  developed  as  the  true  basis  of  his  happiness  and  of  his  moral 
evolution  as  a  member  of  society." 

Hamlin,  Prof.  A.  D.,  and  others. 

Modern  School  Houses.    213  pp.  $7.50 

A  collection  of  150  pages  of  illustrations  of  recently  con- 
structed school  houses,  supplemented  by  a  series  of  authoritative 
articles.  Designed  to  meet  the  needs  of  communities  varying  in 
size  from  the  small  town  to  the  large  city,  together  with  plans, 
elevations,  working  drawings  and   descriptions. 

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SCHOOLS— Continued 

Jenks,  J.  W. 

Citizenship  and  the  Schools.    264  pp.  $1.35 

Addresses  and  essays  on  the  nature  of  public  life  and  public 
duty  and  the  best  ways  of  training  children  to  become  useful 
citizens. 

Leake,  Albert  H.,  Inspector  of  Technical   Education, 

Ontario,  Canada. 

Industrial   Education:     Its   Problems,   Methods 

and   Dangers.      (Hart,    Schaffner   &    Marx    Prize 

Essay  Number  XV.)    1913.    xi  -f-  205  pp.  $1.25 

The  purpose  of  this  essay  is  to  analyze  the  problems  of  in- 
dustrial education  in  a  way  that  will  stimulate  suggestions  for 
their  solution  and  for  getting  full  value,  in  efficient  workers,  for 
the  enormous  sums  spent  on  public  education.  In  studying  the 
methods  by  which  this  may  be  done,  the  following  topics  are 
considered:  "The  Elementary  Schools  and  Their  Revitaliza- 
tion";  "Manual  Training:  Its  Successes,  Its  Failures,  and  Its 
Reorganization  in  Response  to  Present  Conditions";  "Some  New 
Types  of  Schools  and  Principles  Underlying  Their  Organization 
and  Management";  "Various  Problems  Relating  to  Supplementary 
Education  in  Day  and  Evening  Continuation  Schools";  "Ap- 
prenticeship"; "Vocational  Guidance";  "General  Considerations." 
There  is  also  a  chapter  on  "Dangers  Arising  from  the  Misinter- 
pretation of  Foreign  Systems  and  Other  Causes." 

Perry,  Arthur  C,  Jr.,  Ph.  D. 

Outlines  of  School  Administration. 

1912.    viii  +  452  pp.  $1.52 

Not  only  the  school  administration  of  this  country  is  treated, 
but  the  author  has  involved  repeated  revtew  of  the  systems  of 
other  nations. 

United  States  Bureau  of  Education. 

Bibliography  of  Industrial,  Vocational  and  Trade 
Education.  (Bulletin,  1913,  No.  22.)  99  pp.    10  cents 

This  is  considered  to  be  the  first  extensive  list  of  its  kind.  It 
was  prepared  by  Henry  R.  Evans,  of  the  editorial  division  of  the 
Bureau,  assisted  by  members  of  the  library  staff.  About  800  care- 
fully selected  titles  are  listed,  and  the  more  important  works  are 
summarized  for  the  busy  reader  who  wants  to  see  at  a  glance 
what  a  book  contains.  Some  of  the  topics  covered  are:  Work 
and  citizenship;  apprenticeship^  "blind-alley"  employments;  con- 
tinuation schools;  vocational  legislation;  cooperative  courses;  eco- 
nomic and  social  value  of  industrial  training;  industrial  efficiency; 
industrial  education  in  foreign  countries;  attitude  of  trade  unions; 
vocational  guidance.    ' 

Weeks,  Arland  D.,  Professor  of  Education,  North 
Dakota  Agricultural  College. 
The  Education  of  To-Morrow:  The  Adaptation 
of  School  Curricula  to  Economic  Democracy. 
(With  an  Introduction  by  M.  V.  O'Shea,  Professor 
of  Education,  University  of  Wisconsin.)  1913. 
x  +  232  pp.  $1.36 

A  dignified,  broad,  practical  treatment  of  the  means  of  adapt- 
ing courses  of  study  to  the  making  of  the  truly  cultivated  man — 
"the  one  who  knows  how  to  handle  himself  effectively  in  every- 
day life."  The  author  analyses  the  situations  in  which  the  typical 
individual  is  placed,  thus  determining  the  kinds  of  knowledge 
necessary  to  his  solving  every-day  problems.  Part  I  deals  with 
the  kinds  of  knowledge,  Part  II  with  the  means  of  disseminating 
knowledge — through  newspapers,  magazines,  the  church,  ordinary 
converse,  correspondence,  etc.,  as  well  as  through  schools — and 
Part  III  contrasts  the  cultural  and  the  productional  curriculum 
and  formulates  a  democratized  course  of  study.  The  chapter  on 
"Some  Places  Where  Knowledge  is  Needed"  is  particularly  con- 
crete and  vital. 

Woolman,  Mary  Schenck,  Professor  of  Domestic  Art, 
Teachers   College,  New  York. 
The  Making  of  a  Trade  School. 
iv  -f-  101  pp.  50  cents 

The  book  is  of  value  first  to  those  studying  vocational  and 
trade  education,  but  has  vital  interest  for  all  educators,  since  it 
not  only  criticises  the  regular  school  routine  as  a  preparation  for 
life,  but  tells  what  to  do  to  improve  it.  It  has  also  a  message  for 
all  who  are  concerned  with  the  economic  and  social  betterment 
of  the  youngest  wage-earners.  The  subjects  discussed  are  Or- 
ganization and  Work,  the  Problems,  Equipment  and  Support, 
Outlines  and  Accounts  of  Department  Work. 

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SMOKE  NUISANCE— SOCIAL   CENTER.' 

Smoke   Nuisance 

See  also  Health  and  Sanitation 

Cohen,  Julius  B.,  Ph.  D.,  B.  Sc.  F.  R.  S.,  Professor  of 
Organic  Chemistry  in  the  University  of  Leeds,  and 

Ruston,  Arthur  G.,  B.  A.,  B.  Scv  Science  Tutor  in  the 

Department  of  Agriculture,  University  of  Leeds. 

Smoke.  A  Study  of  Town  Air.  1912.  88  pp.     $1.47 

Giving  records,  made  by  the  authors  and  others,  of  the  effect 
of  smoke  on  vegetation  and  the  stonework  of  buildings,  with  a 
subordinate  discussion  (by  Dr.  Ascher.  Medical  Officer  of  Hamm, 
Westphalia)  of  its  effect  on  health.  The  effects  of  the  solid 
particles  of  smoke  and  of  its  gaseous  impurities  are  treated  sepa- 
rately. There  is  an  interesting  chapter  on  "Town  Fog,"  as  to  the 
fact  that  the  nucleus  of  each  drop  of  rain  or  dew  or  fog  is  a 
speck  of  dust.  No  attempt  has  been  made  to  give  the  cause  and 
the  cure  for  smoke;  the  book  merely  collects  data  of  the  results 
of  imperfect  combustion  of  coal,  and  illustrates  them  with 
numerous   photographs    and   diagrams. 

Flagg,  Samuel  B. 

City  Smoke  Ordinances  and  Smoke  Abatement. 

(Bulletin  49  of  the  Bureau  of  Mines.)  1912.  55 
pp.  5  cents 

Dealing  with  the  factors  affecting  smoke  conditions  in  cities, 
and  with  an  investigation  of  smoke  abatement  activities  in  328 
municipalities.  Containing  also  the  essential  features  of  smoke 
ordinances  *  adapted  to  cities  of  different  sizes,  and  the  exact 
phraseology  of  some  of  the  smoke-abatement  ordinances  now  in 
force. 

Nicholson,  William. 

Smoke  Abatement.  1005.  xiii  +  256  pp.  59 
illustrations.  (Published  in  England.)  Duty  ex- 
tra. $1.00 

A  practical  handbook  of  the  subject  for  the  use  of  manufac- 
turers, inspectors,  medical  officers  of  health,  engineers  and  others. 

Olmsted,  Frederick  L.,  and 
Kelsey,  Harlan  P.,  and  others. 

The  Smoke  Nuisance. 

191 1.    56  pp.    Illustrated.  25  cents 

This  pamphlet  is  intended  to  provide  an  interchange  of  ideas 
dealing  with  the  smoke  nuisance  and  to_  promote  a  tendency  to- 
wards uniform  legislation,  to  create  an  intelligent  public  opinion 
on  the  smoke  nuisance  and  to  undertake  measures  of  effective 
remedy.  It  contains  charts,  diagrams,  model  ordinances  and 
special  chapters  on  "The  Smoke  Nuisance  and  the  Law,"  by  Cyrus 
Locher,  of  Cleveland;  "Railroad  Smoke,"  by  George  W.  Welden, 
New  York,  New  Haven  and  Hartford  Railroad;  and  "The  Rail- 
way Smoke  Problem,"  by  A.  W.'  Gibbs,  Pennsylvania  Railroad. 


Social  Centers 

See  also  Recreation,  Social   Research  and   Service 

Perry,  Clarence  Arthur. 

Social  Center  Features  in  New  Elementary 
School  Architecture  and  the  Plans  of  Sixteen 
Socialized  Schools. 

(Published  by  the  Russell  Sage  Foundation.)  1912. 
56  pp.    Illustrated.  25  cents 

"The  purpose  of  the  pamphlet  is  to  make  available  to  those  who 
are  engaged  in  constructing  new  buildings  some  of  the  most  ad- 
vanced plans  that  have  been  adopted  in  American  cities."  More 
than  forty  pages  are  given  to  plans  and  views  of  school  buildings 
which  are  used  as  social  centers.  The  pamphlet  meets  a  dis- 
tinct need. 

Perry,  Clarence  Arthur. 

How  to  Start  Social  Centers.  (Department  of 
Recreation,  Russell  Sage  Foundation.)  1913.  40 
pp.  10  cents 

These  are  some  of  the  stages  in  the  work  of  promoting  a  social 
center,   as   dealt  with   in   this  pamphlet:     Getting  the   Idea;   Or- 

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SOCIAL    CENTERS—SOCIAL    RESEARCH 

ganizing  the  Promoting  Agency;  Taking  Up  the  Matter  with  the 
School  Board;  Removing  the  Legal  Obstacles;  Creating  Public 
Sentiment;  The  Demonstration;  Adapting  the  School  Building. 
There  is  an  interesting  section  on  "What  a  Superintendent  of 
Schools  Can  Do  to  Develop  Social  Centers  Without  an  Appro- 
priation." The  appendices  include:  An  account  of  the  successful 
campaign  for  a  model  school  building  conducted  by  the  Civic 
League  of  Lexington,  Ky. ;  the  essential  provisions  of  the  New 
York  State  social  center  law;  and  a  bulletin  of  neighborhood 
activities   in    Evanston,  111. 

Perry,  Clarence  A. 

Wider  Use  of  the  School  Plant.    423  pp.    51  illus- 
trations. $1.25 

Chapters  on:  Evening  Schools;  Vacation  Schools;  School  Play- 
grounds;  Public  Lectures  and  Entertainments;  Evening  Recrea- 
tion Centers;  Social  Centers;  Organized  Athletics,  Games  and 
Folk  Dancing;  Meetings  in  School  Houses;  Social  Betterment 
Through  Wider  Use.  References  are  made  to  the  "wider-use" 
activities  in  80  cities  in  this  country  and  abroad.  Forms  of  ad- 
ministration are  outlined  and  practical  details  as  to  cost  and 
maintenance  are  furnished. 

Ward,  Edward  J.,  Adviser  ;n  Civic  and  Social  Center 
Development,     University     Extension     Division, 
University  of  Wisconsin,  Editor. 
The  Social  Center.     (National  Municipal  League 
Series.)     1913.     xi  -f  359  pp.  $1.61 

Mr.  Ward  believes  that  the  social  center  is  "the  fundamentally 
and  supremely  essential  institution  of  our  government,"  and  that 
the  ballot  box  should  be  placed  in  the  school  house\  Some  of 
the  suggestive  chapter  heads  of  this  volume  are:  -Beginnings  in 
Rochester  and  Eleswhere;  the  Public  Lecture  Center;  the  Branch 
Public  Library;  the  Public  Art  Gallery;  the  Music  Center;  the 
Festival  Center;  the  Motion  Picture  Theater;  the  Recreation 
Center;  the  Vocation  Center  and  Employment  Bureau;  the  Pub- 
lice  Health  Office;  the  Social  Center  in  the  Rural  Community;  the 
Social  Center  and  the  University;  the  Magnified  School.  The 
appendix  contains  a  suggested  constitution  for  a  neighborhood 
civic  club,  and  a  bibliography  on  social  centers. 

Woods,  Robert  A.,  and 
Kennedy,  Albert  J. 

Handbook  of  Settlements. 

1911.  360  pp.  Cloth,  $1.50;  paper,  75  cents 

Contains  a  section  dealing  with  the  historical  antecedents  of  the 
settlement  in  England  and  America,  a  general  bibliography  and 
an  address  list  of  foreign  settlements.  It  lists  413  settlements 
and  presents  an  outline  of  the  material  facts  about  every  settle- 
ment in  the  United  States,  including  non-residential  neighbor- 
hood centers.  A  characterization  of  the  local  community  serves 
as  a  background  against  which  the  specific  plan  of  work  is  pro- 
jected. 

Social   Research   and   Service 

Addams,  Jane. 

A  New  Conscience  and  an  Ancient  Evil. 

1912.  219  pp.  $1.12 

Jane  Addams  has  an  understanding  way  of  looking  at  things. 
Hers  is  not  to  censure  or  to  blame,  but  only  to  help  humanity. 
That  is  the  purpose  of  her  new  book,  in  which  she  takes  up  a 
question  that  civilization  will  always  have  with  it,  the  greatest 
social  evil  of  our  times.  Miss  Addams'  treatment  is  at  all  times 
frank,  and  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  such  a  plain  statement 
of  the  conditions  and  the  source  of  the  trouble,  coupled  with 
significant  suggestions  as  to  how  these  conditions  may  be  bettered, 
will  do  muchto  bring  about  that  happier  state  which,  in  Miss 
Addams'   opinion,  is  forecasted  by   the   "new   conscience." 

Addams,  Jane. 

Twenty  Years  at   Hull  House,     xvii  -f-  462  pp. 
Illustrated.  $2.67 

The  chapters  which  deal  with  efforts  for  city  betterment  are 
of  vital  interest  to  civic  workers.  They  show  the  far-reaching 
civic  power  of  a  wisely  conducted   settlement. 

Alden,  Percy,  M.  P. 

Democratic  England.    1912.    271  pp.  $1.62 

In  this  concise  statement  of  the  important  social  problems 
confronting  the  British  electorate  to-day  the  author  reviews  such 
questions  as  the  child  and  the  state,  the  problems  of  sweating,  of 
unemployment,  of  old  age,  of  housing  and  the  national  health  in- 
surance bill. 

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SOCIAL  RESEARCH— Continued 

Antin,  Mary. 

The  Promised  Land.     The  Autobiography  of  an 
Immigrant.     1912.    2>73  PP-    Illustrated.  $1.90 

An  absorbing  story  of  the  life  of  a  Russian  Jewess  who  came 
to  America  as  a  child,  showing  the  wonderful  transforming  power 
of  the  city  school  and  the  neighborhood  settlement.  A  telling, 
vivid  and  convincingly  hopeful  view  of  the  immigrant  problem. 

Bartlett,  Dana  W. 

The  Better  City.    248  pp.    32  illustrations.       $1.09 

A  study  of  civic  betterment,  illustrated  by  its  progress  in  Los 
Angeles,  Cal.  The  civic  and  philanthropic  work  of  the  women's 
organizations  receives  a  dignified  tribute,  and  especial  interest 
attaches  to  the  account  of  the  care  given  to  children  through  in- 
stitutions of  various  kinds,  notably  through  the  Juvenile  Court. 

Boyd,  James  Harrington,  A.  M.,  ex-Chairman  of  the 
Ohio  Employers'  Liability  Commission  and  mem- 
ber of  the  Toledo  Bar. 
Workmen's  Compensation  and  Industrial  Insur- 
ance Under  Modern   Conditions.     1913.     2  vols. 
xxx  -f-  1,622  pp.  $9.00 

This  is  the  first  complete  presentation  of  this  most  important 
subject.  The  author  has  studied  it  for  some  twenty  years,  during 
which  he  spent  tv/o  years  in  Europe  studying  systems  of  work- 
men's compensation  and  insurance  where  they  originated.  He 
distinguishes  between  the  laws  for  the  relief  of  injured  workmen 
and  shows  the  economic  effects  of  the  operation  of  such  laws 
from  the  ethical,  social  and  political  points  of  view.  The  his- 
torical evolution  of  these  laws  is  traced,  their  constituent  ele- 
ments are  analyzed  and  their  fundamental  legal  principles  ex- 
plained. The  methods  of  procedure  and  administration  by  which 
these  laws  operate  in  our  country  are  completely  set  forth.  The 
book  is  especially  offered  to  students  of  industrial  economics  and 
to  members  of  the  bar  to  whom  the  task  of  interpreting  and  ad- 
ministering these  laws  is  largely  given. 

Chicago  School  of  Civics  and  Philanthropy. 

City  Welfare   Aids   and   Opportunity.     October, 
191 1.    76  pp.  20  cents 

A  bulletin  of  general  information  for  social  and  civic  workers, 
showing  public  sources  of  information  and  civic  aid.  Including 
lists  of  what  is  available,  under  the  following  heads:  Civic  and 
child  welfare  exhibits;  lectures;  entertainment  programs,  educa- 
tive picture  shows;  library  material  and  facilities  on  civics; 
civic  clubs,  schools  and  other  organizations;  trained  civic  workers. 

Devine,  Edward  T. 

The  Spirit  of  Social  Work.    191 1.    231  pp.       $1.00 

Containing  addresses  under  the  following  titles:  To  Social 
Workers;  The  Conservation  of  Human  Life;  The  Tenement 
Home  in  Modern  Cities;  The  Substantial  Value  of  Woman's 
Vote;  The  Attitude  of  Society  Towards  the  Criminal;  The  Cor- 
rection and  Prevention  of  Crime;  The  Problem  of  the  Police; 
The  Religious  Treatment  of  Poverty;  The  Dominant  Note  of  the 
Modern  Philanthropy;  The  Next  Quarter  Century. 

Earp,  Edwin  L.,  Professor  of  Christian  Sociology,  Drew 
Theological  Seminary. 
The  Social  Engineer,    xxiii  +  326  pp.  $1.61 

The  issuance  of  this  book  by  a  religious  publishing  house  testi- 
fies to  the  Church's  growing  appreciation  of  its  social  service 
duties  and  opportunities.  The  purpose  of  the  manual,  as  stated 
by  the  author  in  his  preface,  is  "to  meet  a  felt  need  now  being 
given  intelligent  expression  by  men's  clubs,  brotherhoods,  Bible 
classes,  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  classes,  and  other 
organizations  with  philanthropic  motives,  for  a  text  book  on 
social  studies  and  actual  social  service."  Its  usefulness,  how- 
ever, is  by  no  means  confined  to  its  adaptability  as  a  textbook, 
for  the  work  will  be  found  helpful,  as  an  incentive  and  a  guide, 
for  individual  reading. 

Harvard  University. 

A  Guide  to  Reading  in  Social  Ethics  and  Allied 
Subjects.    225  pp.  $1.38 

Twenty-three  instructors  in  Harvard  University  have  united  in 
the  preparation  of  this  bibliography.  The  titles  are  chosen 
mainly  from  recent  literature,  and  foreign  works  are  referred  to 
only  when  there  is  no  equivalent  available  in  English.  Section 
III  deals  with  social  service,  and  includes  housing  and  town 
planning,  juvenile   delinquency  and  public  recreation. 

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Janney,  O.  Edward,  M.  D.,  Chairman  of  the  National 

Vigilance  Committee  for  the  Suppression  of  the 

White  Slave  Traffic. 

The  White  Slave  Traffic  in  America.     191 1.     201 

pp.  56  cents 

A  book  for  parents,  teachers,  social  workers  and  many  others 
who  need  to  be  informed  about  the  dangers  that  threaten  young 
women  through  the  white  slave  traffic.  An  account  of  the  move- 
ment for  the  suppression  of  the  traffic  and  of  the  methods  that 
may  be  employed  to  accomplish  that  end. 

Johnson,  Alexander. 

The  Almshouse:    Construction  and  Management. 

191 1.    274  pp.    20  illustrations.  $1.25 

This  book  shows  what  the  almshouse  may  be  at  its  best,  and 
how  it  may  be  raised  to  that  best.  "The  problem  of  the  alms- 
house is  not  merely  the  problem  of  economical  administration, 
nor  of  human  comfort  and  happiness.  It  is  a  part  of  the  great 
social  problem  of  poverty  which  confronts  us,  and  must  be  con- 
sidered in  its  general  relations,  especially  its  relations  to  the 
causes,  the  relief  and  the  prevention   of   destitution." 

Kellogg,  Paul  U.,  Editor. 

The  Pittsburgh  Survey.-  Findings  in  six  volumes. 
Profusely  illustrated,  with  photos  by  Hine,  and 
drawings  in  tint  by  Joseph  Stella;  maps,  charts  and 
tables.  Price  per  set,  $10.00;  per  volume,  $1.72 

The  titles  and  authors  are  as  follows:  Women  and  the  Trades. 
By  Elizabeth  B.  Butler;  Work-Accidents  and  the  Law.  By 
Crystal  Eastman;  Homestead;  The  Households  of  a  Mill  Town. 
By  Margaret  F.  Byington;  The  Steel  Workers.  By  John  A. 
Fitch.  In  preparation,  The  Pittsburgh  District.  Symposium  by 
John  R.  Commons,  Robert  A.  Woods,  Florence  Kelley,  Charles 
Alulford  Robinson  and  others;  Pittsburgh:  The  Gist  of  the  Sur- 
vey.    By  Paul  U.  Kellogg. 

Laselle,  Mary  A.,  and 

Wiley,    Katherine   E.,    Instructors    in    the    Technical 

High  School,  Newton,  Mass. 

Vocations    for    Girls.       (Introduction    by    Meyer 

Bloomfield,    Director    of    the   Vocation   Bureau    of 

Boston.)     1913.     x  +  139  pp.  85  cents 

A  useful  volume  in  the  modern  effort  to  fit  the  girl  worker  to 
the  best  work  she  can  do.  The  book  can  be  used  as  classroom 
material  and  for  reference  by  those  who  seek  advice  about  ad- 
vanced training  for  profitable  employment.  The  Introduction 
says:  "To  the  social  worker  and  that  increasing  number  of  voca- 
tionally alert  officials  connected  with  Young  Women's  Christian 
Associations,  child-welfare  agencies,  public  libraries  and  other 
institutions,  this  book  will  be  a  valuable  addition  to  the  all  too 
few  instruments  now  at  hand  for  helping  our  young  people  to 
find  both  a  life  and  a  livelihood  in  the  work  of  the  world." 

McCulloch,  James  E.  Editor. 

The  South  Mobilizing  for  Social  Service.  Ad- 
dress delivered  at  the  Southern  Sociological  Con- 
gress, Atlanta,  Ga.,  April  25-29,  1913.  702  pp.  2 
portraits.  $2.28 

Containing  68  papers  by  specialists  on  sociological  matters, 
grouped  under  the  following  section  heads:  Conservation  of 
National  Efficiency;  Public  Health;  Courts  and  Prisons;  Child 
Welfare;  Organized  Charities;  Saving  People  in  Transit;  Race 
Problems;  The  Church  and  Social  Service.  These  papers  express 
vividly  the  inspiring  challenge  which  the  Southern  Sociological 
Congress  presents  to  the  whole  South.  The  section  which  covers 
the  organization  of  the  Congress  contains  also  a  bibliography  on 
the  various  phases  of  its  work. 

Macfarland,  Charles  S. 

Spiritual  Culture  and  Social  Service. 

1912.    222  pp.  $1.08 

A  stirring  call  to  service.  Dr.  Macfarland,  as  pastor  of 
churches  in  large  industrial  centers,  has  had  first-hand  expe- 
rience in  some  of  the  most  pressing  problems  now  confronting 
the  Church.  As  secretary  of  the  Social  Service  Commission  of 
the  Federal  Council  he  is  now  engaged  in  solving  the  problem  in 
a  larger  way.  He  has  a  message  to  deliver  and  he  presents  it 
with  a  force  and  conviction  that  cannot  fail  to  deeply  impress 
and  influence  the  reader. 

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SOCIAL  RESEARCH— Continued 

Nearing,  Scott,  Ph.  D. 

Social  Adjustment.    191 1.    377  pp.  $i-6o 

This  volume  discusses  two  groups  of  social  maladjustments; 
first,  those  which  may  be  remedied  by  an  awakened  conscience—- 
uniformity  in  education,  low  wages  and  standards,  congestion  of 
population,  dependence  of  women,  duration  of  the  working  life, 
etc.;  second,  the  maladjustments  which  are  now  understood  and 
which  it  is  possible  for  immediate  legislation  to  remedy — over- 
work, unemployment,  child  labor  and  dangers  and  accidents  in 
labor. 

N earing,  Scott,  Ph.  D. 

Social  Religion.    1913.    xvi  -f-  227  PP-  $1.08 

An  interpretation  of  Christianity  in  terms  of  modern  life. 
"Truth  is  the  only  light  that  can  banish  the  darkness  of  malad- 
justment. Teach  the  truth  in  your  churches  and  your  schools — 
the  truth  about  the  appalling  maladjustments  which  threaten  the 
foundations  of  civilization;  about  cooperative  industry;  about 
progress  and  brotherhood  in  society;  about  the  innate  goodness 
and  capacity  of  man;  about  Social  Religion." 

Post,  Louis  F. 
Social  Service. 
vii  -f-  361  pp.  Paper,  40  cents;  cloth,  75  cents 

This  book  explains,  in  story  form,  the  laws  of  human  relation- 
ship, including  competition  and  equality  of  freedom,  and  culmi- 
nating in  the  great  law  of  mutual  social  service. 

Richmond,  Mary  E. 

The  Good  Neighbor  in  the  Modern  City.     191 1. 
(Fifth  edition.)     152  pp.  Cloth,  66  cents 

A  study  of  neighborliness  in  relation  to  the  child  in  the  city; 
the  child  at  work;  the  adult  worker;  the  tenant;  the  man  on  the 
street;  the  family  in  distress;  the  invalid;  the  contributor;  the 
church  member. 

Seligman,  Edwin  R.  A.,  LL.  D.,  McVickar  Professor  of 
Political  Economy,  Columbia  University,  Editor. 
The  Social  Evil.  With  Special  Reference  to  Con- 
ditions Existing  in  the  City  of  New  York.  Second 
edition;  revised,  with  new  material.  1912.  xvii  -f- 
303  PP.  $1-89 

A  report  prepared  (in  1902)  under  the  direction  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Fifteen.  Since  the  first  edition  of  this  report  was 
issued,  ten  years  ago,  the  subject  has  come  to  be  more  frankly 
discussed  in  the  light  of  recent  medical  knowledge  and  with  a 
broader  understanding  of  the  principles  of  modern  ethics  and 
economics.  Part  III  of  the  present  volume  contains  the  new 
matter,  under  three  chapter  headings:  The  European  Move- 
ment; The  White  Slave  Traffic  in  Europe  and  America,  and  Ten 
Years'  Progress  in  the  United  States.  The  appendix  includes  an 
address  by  the  author  on  the  sanitary  supervision  of  the  social 
evil,  and  a  bibliography  which  covers  the  United  States,  England, 
France,  Germany  and  Japan. 

Stelze,  Charles,  Superintendent,  Bureau  of  Social 
Service,  the  Board  of  Home  Missions  of  the  Pres- 
byterian Church  in  the  United  States  of  America. 

American  Social  and  Religious  Conditions.    1912. 

240  pp.    Illustrated.  $1.10 

The  findings  of  Men  and  Religion  surveys  in  seventy  principal 
cities,  of  which  the  author  had  charge.  A  unique,  graphic  and 
thought-arresting  presentation  of  the  social  problems  which  con- 
front the  United  States.  Combined  with  the  numerous  charts, 
which  tell  a  whole  story  in  themselves,  are  terse,  enlightening, 
practical  chapters  on  our  social  ills  and  how  best  to  remedy  them. 
An  important  hand-book  for  the  Christian   social  worker. 

Tolman,  William  H.,  Ph.  D. 
Social  Engineering. 
viii  +  384  pp.    Illustrated.  $2.21 

Dealing  with  the  following  phases  of  the  subject:  Efficiency 
promotion;  the  social  secretary;  hygiene;  safety  and  security; 
mutuality;  thrift;  profit  sharing;  housing;  education  in  the  fac- 
tory and  after  hours;  recreation;  communal  or  social  betterment. 

55 


SOCIAL    RESEARCH,    Cont.— TEXTBOOKS    ON    CIVICS 

Tolman,  William  H.,  Ph.  D.,  Director  of  the  American 
Museum  of  Safety,  and 

Kendall,  Leonard  B. 

Safety:  Methods  for  Preventing  Occupational 
and  Other  Accidents  and  Disease.  1913.  xii  -j- 
422  pp.    Many  illustrations.  $3.19 

A  comprehensive  treatment  of  one  of  the  essential  elements  ot 
successful  modern  industry — the  promotion  of  safety  to  workers 
by  practical  safeguards  and  attention  to  the  principles  of  hygiene. 
The  book  is  based  upon  wide  first-hand  knowledge  of  actual  in- 
dustrial conditions  here  and  abroad.  The  subject  is  presented 
under  four  heads:  General  Conditions;  Danger  Zone;  Industrial 
Hygiene;   Social  Welfare. 

Van  Schaack,  David,  Editor. 

Safeguards  for  the  Prevention  of  Industrial  Acci- 
dents. (Published  by  the  Accident  and  Liability 
Department  of  the  ^Etna  Life  Insurance  Company.) 
1913.   Second  edition.    187  pp.   Illustrated.    10  cents 

A  direct  and  simple  presentation  of  the  causes  of  industrial 
accidents  and  ways  of  preventing  them  by  greater  care,  common- 
sense  provisions  and  safety  appliances.^  Illustrated  by  many  dia- 
grams and  views  of  safeguards. 

Waters,  Yssabella 

Visiting  Nursing  in  the  United  States. 

367  pp.    4  illustrations.  $1.25 

The  whole  book  is  so  practical  and  the  suggestions  are  so  con- 
crete that  any  group  of  people  wishing  to  establish  visiting 
nursing  will  find  it  an  efficient  guide,  and  those  interested  in 
existing  organizations  can  gain  from  it  many  new  ideas  of  ad- 
ministration and  efficiency. 


Textbooks  on   Civics 

Clark,  Eleanor  J. 

Outlines  of  Civil  Government.    176  pp.      75  cents 

A  school  principal  who  has  used  this  book  in  his  classes  says: 
'T  do  not  remember  that  I  have  ever  seen  a  little  book  so  full 
of  work  and  so  free  from  nonsensical,  platitudinous  padding  as 
this.  The  outlines  are  magnificent,  and  the  notebook  work  as 
outlined  makes  it  impossible  for  a  youngster  to  leave  it  without 
a  fairly  clear  idea  of  this  very  important  subject." 

Dunn,  Arthur  William,  Head  of  Department  of  His- 
tory and  Civics,  Shortridge  High  School,  Indian- 
apolis, Ind. 
The  Community  and  the  Citizen,    xii  +  266  pp. 
50  or  more  illustrations.  75  cents 

This  book  is  unique  in  its  content  and  method.  It  deals  with 
the  principles  underlying  community  life  rather  than  with  mere 
details  of  civic  procedure.  It  aims  to  develop  interests  and 
sympathies  that  will  remain  dominant  after  school  life.  At  the 
same  time  it  gives  adequate  space  to  local,  state  and  national 
government.     It  makes  good  citizenship  the  natural  result. 

Fowler,  Nathaniel  C,  Jr. 

How  to    Obtain   Citizenship.     1913.     viii  +  288 
pp.  $1.62 

This  book  contains  plain,  simple,  concise  directions  for  the 
foreigner  who  wishes  to  become  a  citizen  of  the  United  States. 
The  questions  which  may  be  asked  the  foreigner  by  the  court  or 
examiner  are  given,  with  answers.  The  portions  of  the  book  that 
cover  the  process  of  naturalization  are  given  in  English,  Italian, 
German,  French  and  Yiddish.  Complete  copies  are  included  of 
all  legal  papers  to  be  filled  out  and  signed.  The  Declaration  of 
Independence  and  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  are 
given,  with  notes  and  explanations.  The  book  contains  consider- 
able information  about  the  United  States,  its  customs  and  people; 
how  to  invest  money  without  undue  risk,  and  what  to  do  to  be 
more  patriotic  and  successful. 

Giffin,  William  M. 

Civics  for  Young  Americans — First  Lessons  in 
Government.    171  pp.  70  cents 

The  author  has  shown  in  a  novel  and  interesting  way,  and  in 
language  intelligible  to  a  ten-year-old  boy,  the  necessity  of  gov- 
ernment, the  different  forms  of  government,  and  the  advantages 
of  our  government  over  all  others.  The  appendix  treats  fully  of 
state,  county,  city  and  town  governments. 
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TEXTBOOKS,    Cont— TRAFFIC    AND    TRANSPORTATION 

Jewett,  Frances  Gulick. 
Town  and  City, 
viii  +  278  pp.    Illustrated.  50  cents 

Included  in  the  series  of  school  textbooks  on  hygiene  planned 
by  Dr.  Luther  H.  Gulick.  Telling  in  a  simple,  interesting  way. 
adapted  to  children  in  the  lower  grades,  of  the  health  problems 
of  municipalities  and  their  solution.  Its  practical  school  use  is 
aided  by  a  bibliographical  list,  a  glossary,  an  index  and  a  set  of 
questions  on  each  chapter.  The  five  chapters  on  water  supply 
are  especially  important.  Boys  and  girls  can  be  interested  in 
this  book  in  their  own  homes. 

Moody,  Walter  D. 

Wacker's  Manual  of  the  Plan  of  Chicago.     1912. 
147  pp.    138  illustrations.  75  cents 

A  textbook  in  municipal  economy;  especially  prepared  for  study 
in  the  schools  of  Chicago;  descriptive  of  the  Chicago  Plan,  and  a 
presentation  of  the  principles  of  city  planning  in  general. 

Plass,  Anna  A.,  Teacher  of  English  to  Foreigners  in 
Day  and  Evening  Schools,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Civics  in  Simple  Lessons  for  Foreigners.     1012. 
vi  +  187  pp.    Illustrated.  50  cents 

This  textbook  is  an  important  tool  in  the  work  of  molding  the 
foreigner  into  the  loyal  American  citizen.  In  simple  language, 
the  foreigner's  earliest  interests  are  first  taken  up — the  features 
of  our  government  which  he  sees  on  the  street  and  in  the  home. 
This  leads  to  a  study  of  the  purposes  of  our  laws  and  of  the 
fundamental  principles  of  our  government  and  its  essential  out- 
lines, to  the  important  facts  of  our  history  and  to  the  choosing 
of  officers,  methods  of  registration  and  voting,  and  the  legal  re- 
quirements for  naturalization,  with  the  blank  forms  used  in  the 
process  and  the  usual  questions  asked.  There  is  a  vocabulary  of 
Ttalian,  German,  Swedish.  French,  Polish,  Greek  and  Yiddish 
equivalents  of  all  the  words  used  in  the  book. 

Richman,  Julia,  and 
Wallach,  Isabel  Richman. 

Good  Citizenship.    108  pp.    Illustrated.      45  cents 

This  book  is  planned  to  meet  the  needs  of  fourth-year  children, 
but  in  the  hands  of  an  intelligent  teacher  it  can  be  used  both  in 
higher  and  in  lower  grades.  Although  designed  as  a  supple- 
mentary reader  to  fit  a  graded  course  in  civics,  it  contains  much 
of  dramatic  interest,  many  ethical  lessons  and  a  clear  statement 
of  the  child's  opportunities  for  rendering  civic  service.  It  is 
also  suited  for  use  in  evening  schools  for  immigrants  and  for 
juvenile  clubs. 

Roberts,  Peter,  Ph.  D. 

Civics  for  Coming  Americans.     1912.     52  pp.     Il- 
lustrated. 15  cents 

This  booklet  is  intended  to  help  foreign-speaking  immigrants 
to  pass  the  examination  for  naturalization,  and  it  should  be  used 
for  this  purpose  by  evening  schools,  clubs,  settlements,  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.,  etc.,  to  give  the  much-needed  aid.  The  course  of  study 
outlined  can  be  pursued  by  lessons  once  a  week  during  the  ninetv 
days  that  must  elapse  after  the  filing  of  the  petition  for  second 
papers  and   before   the   examination. 


Traffic  and  Transportation 

See  also  Municipal  Ownership  and  Public  Utilities 

Eno,  William  Phelps. 

Street  Traffic  Regulation.  1909.  Quarto.  63  pp. 
Illustrated.  $2.00 

Dealing  with  the  control  of  street  traffic  in  New  York  City, 
giving  its  history  and  stating  the  general  and  special  regulations. 
The  volume  includes  articles  by  the  author  on  automobile  li- 
censes, numbers,  speed,  signs,  etc.,  and  on  street  traffic  and  gen- 
eral police  work,  and  on  "How  to  Improve  City  Car  Service." 
Many  views  and  diagrams  add  to  the  value  of  the  book. 

Johnson,  F.  W.,  Superintendent,  Bureau  for  Prevention 
of  Accidents,  Philadelphia  Rapid  Transit  Com- 
pany. 

The  Prevention  of  Accidents.  1910.  Third  edition. 
Entirely  rewritten.  50  pp.  Snecial  prices  on  lots  of 
25,  100  and  500.  Single  copies,  25  cents 

This  booklet  will  interest  motormen  and  conductors.     Some  of 
the  largest  street  railway  systems  have  bought  quantities  to  dis- 
tribute among  their  men  free  of  charge. 
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TREES,    PLANTING    AND    PRESERVATION    OF 

Trees,  Planting  and  Preservation  of 

See  also  Landscape  Architecture 

Bailey,  L.  H. 

The  Pruning  Book.     1912.     ix  -f  545  pp.     Illus- 
trated. $1.66 

A  monograph  of  the  pruning  and  training  of  plants  as  applied 
to  American  conditions.  Written  in  an  intimate,  friendly,  con- 
versational style,  with  many  illustrations.  Under  "The  Funda- 
mentals" there  are  studies  of  the  philosophy  of  pruning,  the 
fruit-bud,  the  healing  of  wounds  and  the  principles  of  pruning. 
Under  "The  Incidentals"  some  specific  advice  is  given  as  to 
details  of  practice  which  are  largely  personal  opinions  and,  there- 
fore, of  restricted  application,  but  are  designed  to  suggest  some 
of  the  methods  which  may  be  employed  to  secure  given  results. 
This  section  deals  not  only  with  trees,  but  berry  bushes,  hedges, 
ornamental  plants,  grape   vines,    etc. 

Blakeslee,    Albert    Francis,    Ph.    D.,    Professor    of 
Botany  and  Director  of  Summer  School,  Connecti- 
cut Agricultural  College,  and 
Jarvis,  Chester  Deacon,  Ph.  D.,  Horticulturist,  Storrs 
Experiment  Station. 
Trees  in  Winter:     Their  Study.  Planting,  Care 
and  Identification.     1913.  446  pp.     Many  illustra- 
tions. $2.22 

Under  Part  I,  Planting  and  Care  of  Trees,  the  chapter  heads 
are:  Structure,  Life  and  Growth  of  a  Tree;  The  Propagation  of 
Trees;  Tree  Planting  in  Rural  Districts;  Tree  Planting  in  Towns 
and  Cities;  The  Selection  of  Trees  for  Special  Purposes;  How 
Trees  Are  Planted;  The  Care  of  Trees;  Common  Injuries  to 
Shade  Trees;  The  Control  of  Parasites;  Insecticides,  Fungicides 
and  Spraying.  Part  II  covers  the  identification  of  trees,  with 
analytical  key  to  genera  and  species,  and  descriptions  of  many 
species,  also  glossary  and  index. 

Fernow,  B.  K,  Professor  of  Forestry  in  the  University 
of  Toronto. 
The   Care  of  Trees  in  Lawn,  Street  and  Park, 
x  -{-  392  pp.    Illustrated.  $2.17 

A  book  for  tree  owners  and  tree  lovers.  Filled  with  detailed, 
practical  information  about  the  structure,  growth  and  life  of 
trees,  their  diseases  and  the  treatment  of  them.  Much  attention 
is  given  to  tree  surgery,  which  is  well  illustrated.  More  than  100 
pages,  with  many  illustrations,  are  given  to  a  descriptive  list  of 
trees  for  shade  and  ornament,  followed  by  a  general  list  of 
shrubs  and  selected  lists  of  trees  and  shrubs  for  special  purposes. 

Levison,  J.  J..  M.  F.,  Forester  to  the  Department  of 
Parks,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Studies  of  Trees.  (The  Wiley  Technical  Series. 
Edited  by  J.  M.  Jameson.)  1913.  Loose-leaf  8  x 
ioj^-inch  pamphlets.  Illustrated.  Nine  ready.  The 
first  eight,  5  cents  each ;  the  ninth,  10  cents. 

A  concise,  systematic  non-technical  treatment  of  the  subject.  It 
deals  with  the  identification  of  trees,  their  nature,  habits  and 
growth;  insects  and  diseases  which  attack  them;  their  grouping 
and  planting;  the  pruning  and  care  of  trees;  and  forestry  in  its 
many  aspects.  A  guide  for  practical  field  work.  Each  tree  is 
identified  by  its  most  prominent  characteristic  which  distinguishes 
it  at  a  glance  from  all  others  at  all  seasons,  and  careful  compari- 
sons are  made  between  trees  of  different  species  and  similar  ap- 
pearance. Pamphlets  on  the  following  subjects  are  now  ready: 
The  Pines;  The  Spruce  and  Hemlock:  The  Arbor  Vita:  and 
Cedar;  The  Larch  and  Cypress;  The  Horsechestnut,  Ash  and 
Maple;  Trees  Told  bv  Their  Form:  Elm,  Poplar,  Gingko  and 
Willow;  Trees  Told  by  Their  Bark  or  Trunk:  Sycamore,  Birch. 
Beech,  Blue  Beech  and  Hackberry;  What  Trees  to  Plant  and 
How;  Insects  Injurious  to  Trees  and  How  to  Combat  Them. 

Peets,  Elbert. 

Practical  Tree  Repair.     1913.    vii  +  2^5  PP-    Il- 
lustrated. $2.14 

This  book  deals  with  one  division  of  the  science  of  arboricul- 
ture. It  has  little  to  say  about  planting,  fertilization,  pruning 
or  spraying  of  trees,  but  is  devoted  to  the  prevention  and  repair 
of  physical  injuries  to  the  framework  of  the  tree,  caused  by 
storms,  the  ignorance  and  carelessness  of  men,  the  attacks  of 
insects   and  of  rot-producing   fungi. 

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TREES,  Continued— TUBERCULOSIS  CAMPAIGN 

Solotaroff,  William,  B.    S.,    Secretary    and   Superin- 
tendent of  the  Shade  Tree  Commission  of  East 
Orange,  N.  J. 
Shade  Trees  in  Towns  and  Cities,    xviii  -f  2&7  PP- 
251  illustrations.  $3'00 

The  selection,  planting  and  care  of  shade  trees  as  applied  to- 
the  art  of  street  decoration;  their  diseases  and  remedies;  their 
municipal  control  and  supervision.  The  illustrations  are  from 
original  photographs  by  the  author. 


Tuberculosis,    Campaign    Against 

See  also  Health  and  Sanitation,  Public 

Behring,  Emil  von,  M.  D.,  University  of  Marburg. 
The    Suppression    of    Tuberculosis.      Translated 
from  the  German  by  Charles  Bolduan,  M.  D.    vi  + 
85  pp.  $1.00 

With  observations  concerning  phthisiogenesis  in  man  and  ani- 
mals and  suggestions  concerning  the  hygiene  of  cow  stables  and 
the  production  of  milk  for  infant  feeding,  with  special  reference 
to  tuberculosis. 

Carrington,  Thomas  Spees,  M.  D. 

Fresh  Air  and  How  to  Use  It.    19 12.    250  pp.    150 
illustrations.  $1.00 

The  aim  of  the  book  is  not  primarily  to  suggest  methods  of 
treating  disease  in  the  open  air;  it  is  rather  a  hand-book  for 
everyone  who  wishes  to  ward  off  disease  in  his  own  body  and  in 
those  of  the  other  members  of  his  family.  Dr.  Carrington's 
method  of  treating  the  subject  is  practical.  He  aims  to  be  so 
concise  that  anyone  may  be  able  to  follow  out  his  instructions  in 
securing  or  making  the  devices  of  which  he  speaks.  Some  of 
the  topics  which  he  discusses  are  window  tents,  home-made  and 
manufactured;  roof  bungalows,  with  suggestions  for  building; 
temporary  fresh-air  porches  for  country  use;  wall  houses  and  iron 
frame  porches  for  city  use;  tents  and  tent  houses;  open-air 
bungalows  and  cottages;  roof  playgrounds  for  children;  and 
clothing,  bedding  and  furniture  necessary  for  outdoor  living  and 
sleeping. 

Carrington,  Thomas  Spees,  M.  D. 

Tuberculosis  Hospital  and  Sanatorium  Construc- 
tion.    191 1.     164  pp.     no  illustrations.  $1.50 

Written  for  the  National  Association  for  the  Study  and  Pre- 
vention of  Tuberculosis,  with  the  idea  that  careful  preliminary 
planning  is  the  chief  factor  in  subsequent  economical  operation 
of  institutions.  The  section  heads  are:  Site  and  Grouping;  Ad- 
ministration Buildings;  Administration  Buildings  and  Patients' 
Quarters  Combined;  Hospitals  for  Advanced  Cases;  Infirmaries 
and  Reception  Hospitals;  Patients'  Quarters,  Lean-to  Type  of 
Building;   Patients'  Quarters,  Cottage  Type  of  Building. 

Davis,  N.  S.,  M.  D.,  Professor  of  Principles  and  Prac- 
tices of  Medicine,  Northwestern  University  Medi- 
cal School,  Chicago. 
Consumption:     How  to  Prevent  It  and  How  to 
Live  With  It.    1908.    172  pp.  $1.00 

Discusses  practically  the  greatest  plague  of  the  present  day. 
Contains  invaluable  suggestions  concerning  the  different  climates 
and  the  important  part  each  plays  in  the  treatment  of  the  disease. 
The  hygienic  rules  essential  to  the  successful  treatment  of  the 
disease  are  stated  in  a  succinct  and  intelligible  manner. 

International  Congress  on  Tuberculosis  (Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  September  28-October  5,  1908). 
Transactions  of  the  Sixth  International  Congress. 
6  vols.     Many  illustrations.  Per  vol.,  $3.00 

A  large  and  rich  collection  of  papers  which  truly  record  the 
status  of  the   universal   struggle  against  tuberculosis.     Each  vol- 

59 


TUBERCULOSIS    CAMPAIGN,     Cont.— WASTE    DISPOSAL 

urne  has  its  own  index.  Some  of  the  papers  are  in  French,  some 
in  German;  the  majority  are  in  English.  The  supplement  con- 
tains a  series  of  public  lectures  specially  prepared  for  the 
Congress. 

Jacobs,  Philip  P.,  Ph.  D.,  Assistant  Secretary  National 
Association    for    the    Study   and    Prevention   of 
Tuberculosis,  Compiler. 
A  Tuberculosis  Directory.   1911.  331pp.     50  cents 

Containing  a  list  of  institutions,  associations  and  other  agencies 
dealing  with  tuberculosis  in  the  United  States  and  Canada.  Com- 
piled for  the  National  Association  for  the  Study  and  Prevention 
of  Tuberculosis. 

Knopf,  S.  Adolphus,  M.  D. 

Tuberculosis  as   a  Disease  of  the  Masses,  and 
How  to   Combat  It.     International   Prize  Essay. 
Seventh  American  edition,  thoroughly  revised  and 
greatly  enlarged.     191 1.     124  pp.    64  illustrations. 
Paper,  25  cents;  Cloth,  50  cents 

This  book  has  been  a  great  factor  in  the  dissemination  of 
practical  knowledge  in  the  warfare  against  pulmonary  consump- 
tion. It  speaks  in  clear,  simple,  direct  English;  its  illustrations 
show  the  methods  and  utensils  which  aid  the  cure,  including 
arrangements  for  outdoor  sleeping  and  views  of  sanatoria  and 
preventoria.  It  is  essentially  practical;  it  does  not  theorize,  but 
tells  exactly  what  to  do  to  prevent  and  cure  the  disease. 

National  Association  for  the  Study  and  Prevention 

of  Tuberculosis. 

Transactions  of  the  Eighth  Annual  Meeting  of 

the  Association,  Washington,  D.  C,  May  30-31, 

1912.    1912.    570  pp.  $1.00 

Exceedingly  valuable  reports  of  various  departments  of  the 
anti-tuberculosis  campaign.  Preceding  volumes  are  also  obtain- 
able. 

Otis,,  Edward  O. 

The  Great  White  Plague.    321  pp.  $1.10 

A  popular  study  of  the  cause  and  cure  of  tuberculosis,  giving 
a  history  of  the  disease  and  the  warfare  against  it,  the  analysis 
of  its  dangers,  and  the  instructions  for  treatment  in  a  compre- 
hensive, detailed  and  non-technical  way.  It  characterizes  the 
"consumption  terror"  as  a  cowardly  evil. 


Waste  Disposal,  Including  Garbage, 
Sewage  and  Other  Wastes 

See  also  Health  and  Sanitation;  and  Public  Works 

FOLWELL,   AMORY   PrESCOTT. 

Sewerage.     1910.     Sixth  edition.     506  pp.     Illus- 
trated. $3.00 

Treating  of  the  general  subject  of  the  design  and  construction 
of  sewerage  systems,  their  operation  and  cost,  and  discussing  to 
some  extent  the  problem   of  sewage  disposal. 

Fuller,  George  W.,  Consulting  Engineer  and  Sanitary 
Expert. 
Sewage  Disposal.     1912.    xv  -f-  767  pp.  80  illus- 
trations. $6.00 

A  full  and  careful  study  of  important  modern  methods  of 
sewage  disposal,  mainly  as  practiced  in  America,  but  with  refer- 
to  European  experience.  It  is  the  product  of  many  years  of 
professional  work  and  of  study  of  the  problems  of  sanitary  en- 
gineering. The  discussion  of  the  physical,  chemical  and  bio- 
logical conditions  which  must  be  understood  by  the  engineer  of 
disposal  works  includes  a  thorough  review  of  the  relation  of  sew- 
age bacteria  to  shellfish  pollution.  Sewage  disposal  by  dilution, 
and  the  preparation  of  the  more  important  devices  found  in 
practice  for  the  treatment  of  sewage,  with  special  attention  to 
nitration  matters,  are  fully  described.  The  present  efficiency  and 
standing  of  various  methods  are  clearly  defined. 


WASTE  DISPOSAL— Continued 

Goodrich,  W.  Francis. 

Modern  Destructor  Practice.    1912.    xvi  -f-  278  pp. 
Illustrated.  $4.50 

Treating  of  various  types  of  British  refuse  destructors  and  of 
German  and  American  furnaces;  of  destructors  combined  with 
sewage  works  and  with  electricity  works;  of  destructor  sites, 
specifications,  design  and  operation,  and  of  the  utilization  of  resi- 
duals. Based  on  thorough  experience  with  one  of  the  most  suc- 
cessful British  destructors,  and  on  information  regarding  the 
best  work  of  the  kind  by  British  and  foreign  designers  and 
builders. 

Kershaw,  G.  Bertram. 

Modern  Methods  of  Sewage  Purification.     191 1. 

356  pp.    Illustrated.  $7-50 

A  guide  for  the  designing  and  maintenance  of  sewage  purifi- 
cation works.  Including  the  following  topics  of  discussion:  Va- 
riations in  Flow  of  Sewage;  Classification  of  Sewages;  Considera- 
tions to  Be  Observed  in  Selecting  the  Site  for  Sewage  Disposal 
Works;  Preliminary  Processes;  Disposal  of  Sludge;  Land  Treat- 
ment of  Sewage;  Contact  Beds;  Percolating  Filters;  Trade 
Wastes;  Purification   Works  in  Actual  Operation. 

Kinnicutt,  Leonard  Parker,  and 

Winslow,  Charles-Edward  A.,  and 

Pratt,  R.  Winthrop. 

Sewage  Disposal.     1910.     xxvi  -f-  436  pp.     Illus- 
trated. $3.00 

The  authors  say: 

"It  has  been  our  aim  to  discuss  somewhat  fully  the  funda- 
mental principles  of  chemistry  and  bacteriology  which  are  in- 
volved, and  yet  to  include  also  the  more  important  aspects  of  the 
engineering  works  designed  to  carry  them  into  operation.  It  is 
hoped  that  the  book  may  be  useful  to  the  student  of  sanitary  en- 
gineering who  aims  to  fit  himself  for  the  construction  of  sewage 
disposal  works,  to  the  engineer  who,  after  working  in  other 
lines,  is  drawn  into  this  growing  field,  and  to  the  chemist,  the 
bacteriologist  and  the  public  health  official  concerned  in  the 
operation  of  disposal  works  after  they  are  built." 

Lemmoin-Cannon,  Henry,  P.  A.  S.  I., 

A  Textbook  on  Sewage  Disposal  in  the  United 

Kingdom.  (Published  in  England.)      1912.  xx  -f 

320  pp.    Illustrated.    Duty  extra.  $2.00 

The  author  has  endeavored  to  give  a  brief,  yet  comprehensive, 
outline  of  the  present  position  in  regard  to  sewage  _  disposal 
which  would  be  useful,  not  only  to  those  surveyors,  sanitary  en- 
gineers and  local-government  officials  who  are  especially  con- 
cerned, but  also  to  candidates  for  the  different  examinations 
(including  that  for  the  Medical  Officer's  Diploma  in  Public  Health) 
in  which  sewage  disposal  is  one  of  the  subjects.  The  short  chap- 
ters and  the  analytical  table  of  contents  make  it  easy  of 
reference.  The  appendices  contain  laws  on  pollution  of  rivers, 
on  drains,  sewers,  sewage,  etc.,  and  on  the  acquisition  of  lands 
therefor  in  England,  Wales,  Scotland  and  Ireland. 

Morse,  William  R,  Sanitary  Engineer. 

The  Collection  and  Disposal  of  Municipal  Waste. 
1908.    500  pp.    91  illustrations.     100  tables.        $5.00 

An  exhaustive  treatise  upon  methods,  apparatus  and  processes 
for  the  collection,  treatment  and  final  disposition  of  waste  of 
American  municipalities.  Prepared  specially  for  city  engineers, 
boards  of  health,  technical  schools,  students  of  engineering  and 
civic  associations. 

Ogden,  Henry  N.,  M.  Am.  Soc.   C.   E.,  Professor  of 

Sanitary  Engineering,  Cornell  University,  and 

Cleveland,  H.   Burdett,  Assoc.   M.  Am.   Soc.   C.   E., 

Principal   Assistant   Engineer,   New   York   State 

Department  of  Health. 

Practical    Methods    of    Sewage    Disposal — For 

Residences,  Hotels  and  Institutions.     1912.    vi  + 

132  pp.     50  illustrations.  $1.50 

A  simple,  non-technical  explanation  of  the  construction  of  a 
small_  plant  for  sewage  disposal  for  single  houses  where  the  sew- 
age is  of  normal  composition.  Besides  the  introduction,  the 
chapter  heads#  are  as  follows:  The  Settling  Tank;  Valves,  Si- 
phons and  Siphon  Chambers;  Sub-Surface  Irrigation;  Sewage 
Filters;  Broad  Irrigation;   Estimates  of  Cost. 

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WASTE    DISPOSAL,    Continued— WATER    FRONTS 

Ogden,  Henry  N. 

Sewer  Construction.  1908.  xii  -J-  335  pp.  Illus- 
trated. $3.00 

A  practical  treatise  on  the  general  problems  involved  in  sewer 
construction.  _  It  takes  up  such  details  as  manholes,  catch  basins, 
sewer  ventilation,  etc. 

Raikes,  Hugh  P. 

The  Design,  Construction  and  Maintenance  of 
Sewage  Disposal  Works.  1008.  429  pp.  72  illus- 
trations. $4.00 

Information  on  the  practical  engineering  side  of  the  subject 
in  distinction  from  the  chemical  and  biological  aspects  of  sewage 
disposal.  The  chapter  heads  are:  Purification  of  Sewage  Due  to 
Action  of  Bacteria;  Alternative  Methods  of  Treatment  and  Pre- 
liminary Considerations  Affecting  the  Design  and  Construction 
of  Works;  Diffusion  in  Tidal  Waters;  Irrigation  and  Land  Fil- 
tration; Removal  of  Matters  in  Suspension  by  Screening  and 
Treatment  in  Tanks;  Chemical  Precipitants  and  the  Disposal  of 
Sewage  Sludge;  Filtering  Media  for  Bacteria  Beds;  Contact  Beds 
and  Their  Operation;  Percolating  Filters,  Alternative  Methods 
of  Construction  and  Working;  Distribution  Over  Percolating 
Filters;  The  Separation  and  Disposal  of  Storm  Water;  Purifica- 
tion of  Trade  Wastes;  Maintenance  and  Management  of  Sewage 
Disposal  Works. 

SCHMEITZNER,  RUDOLPH. 

Clarification  of  Sewage.  Translated  by  A.  E.  Kim- 
berley.     1910.     113  pp.    Illustrated.  $1.50 

One  of  the  best  treatments  of  screen  and  tank  methods  of 
sewage  purification,  with  particular  reference  to  design  and  con- 
struction. 

Shenton,  H.  C  H.,  F.  S.  E. 

Practical  Sewerage  and  Sewage  Disposal.  (Pub- 
lished in  England.)  1912.  vii  -f  148  pp.  Illus- 
trated.    Duty  extra.  $1.40 

A  useful,  practical  discussion  of  British  methods  of  sewerage 
and  sewage  disposal,  designed  to  give  advice  to  those  in  charge  of 
such  work,  and  omitting  unessential  material. 

Taylor,  F.  Noel,  G  E. 

The  Main  Drainage  of  Towns.  1912.  xi  -f  313 
pp.    Illustrated.  $4.50 

"The  plan  adopted  is  to  place  before  the  reader  the  successive 
stages  of  a  sewage  scheme  so  far  as  engineering  work  is  con- 
cerned, laying  special  stress  upon  modern  methods  of  construc- 
tion in  populous  districts.  Systems  for  raising  sewage  by  artificial 
means,  such  as  local  pumping,  either  hydraulic  or  electric,  are 
considered  in  detail.  Consideration  is  given  to  various  systems 
of  sewage  irrigation  and  intermittent  filtration  through  land;  to 
chemical  treatment  by  earthy  salts  used  in  connection  with  the 
precipitation  of  sewage;  to  the  so-called  polarite  filter;  as  well  as 
to  sewage  sludge,  and  the  means  of  disposing  of  it."  Designed 
to  be  useful  to  those  who  are  required  to  carry  out  moderate- 
sized  schemes,  and  who  know  that  good  design  and  workmanship 
are  needed,  since  a  small  scheme  may  quickly  develop  into  a  large 
one. 

Watson,  Hugh  S. 

Sewerage  Systems.  191 1.  330  pp.  Illustrated.    $4.00 

An  English  treatise  on  design,  construction  and  maintenance, 
with  examples  of  existing  works. 


Water    Fronts 

Clapp,  Edwin  J.,  New  York  University. 

The   Port  of   Hamburg.      191 1.     xiii   -f-  220  pp. 
Illustrated.  $1.66 

This  book  is  the  result  o*  two  years'  study  of  German  water- 
ways and  ocean  terminals.  It  lays  particular  stress  on  the  de- 
velopment of  the  River  Elbe,  which  cooperates  to  the  fullest 
extent  through  the  most  modern  forms  of  transportation,  splendid 
terminals  and  the  working  together  of  the  railroads  to  promote 
Germany's  foreign  trade.  The  volume  contains  much  vital  matter 
for  those  interested  in  modernizing  terminals  on  our  oceans, 
great  lakes  and  rivers,  in  resuscitating  river  transportation,  in 
creating  an  American  merchant  marine,  and  in  the  expansion  of 
our  foreign  trade. 

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WATER  FRONTS,  Cont.— WATER  SUPPLY 

Cresson,  B.  F.,  Jr.,  First  Deputy  Commissioner,  and 
Staniford,  Charles  W.,  Chief  Engineer,  Department 
of  Docks  and  Ferries,  New  York  City. 
Report  on  the  Mechanical  Equipment  of  New 
York  Harbor.  (Submitted  by  Calvin  Tomkins, 
Commissioner  of  Docks.)  December  19,  1912.  96 
pp.    Illustrated.  10  cents 

Describing  the  freight-handling  equipment  and  methods  of  New 
York  harbor.  Including  a  brief  statement  of  European  methods. 
Many  illustrations  of  the  mechanical  equipment  in  use  in  New 
York  harbor,  and  many  diagrams  showing  methods  of  operation 
of  some  of  the  mechanical   devices  illustrated. 

Staniford,  Charles  W.,  Chief  Engineer,  Department 
of  Docks  and  Ferries,  New  York  City. 
Report  on  Physical  Characteristics  of  European 
Seaports.  (Submitted  by  Calvin  Tomkins,  Com- 
missioner of  Docks.)  191 1.  47  pp.  Illustrated 
with  diagrams.  10  cents 

This  report  is  the  result  of  a  study  by  its  author  of  the  prin- 
cipal harbors  of  Northern  Europe.  The  ports  decribed  are  Ant- 
werp, Rotterdam,  Hamburg,  Bremen,  Havre,  Southampton,  Lon- 
don, Liverpool,  Birkenhead  and  Glasgow.  There  is  a  supplement 
by  Calvin  Tomkins  on  "Improved  Methods  for  the  Transfer  of 
Freight  Between  the  Waterfront,  the  Railway  and  the  Ware- 
house." 

The  Toronto  Harbor  Commissioners. 

Toronto    Waterfront     Development,     1912-1920. 

1913.    32  pp.    Views  and  Plans. 

Describing  and  illustrating  a  remodeled  waterfront  for  Toronto, 
to  be  completed  in  eight  years'  work,  with  an  estimated  total  ex- 
penditure of   $19,142,088. 

Water  Supply  and  Water  Works 

See  also  Health  and  Sanitation;  and  Public  Works 

American  Water  Works  Association. 

Proceedings  of  the  Thirty-second  Annual  Con- 
vention of  the  American  Water  Works  Associa- 
tion. (Held  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  June  3-7,  1912-1913. 
xvi  +  471  pp.    Illustrated.  $5-oo 

Including  papers  on  the  following  subjects:  "Ancient  and 
Modern  Water  Works";  "Floor  Area  Unit  as  a  Basis  for  Esti- 
mating Consumption";  "More  than  Fifty  Years'  Reminiscence  in 
Water  Works";  "Organization  of  the  Bureau  of  Water  Supply, 
City  of  New  York";  "The  Philosophy  of  Purchasing  Supplies"; 
"The  Principles  of  Efficiency  Applied  to  Water  Works";  "The 
Value  of  a  Continuous  Settling  Basin,  and  a  Discussion  of  the 
Economic  Principles  of  Design  of  Such  Reinforced  Concrete 
Structures";  "Turbine-Driven  Centrifugal  Pumps  for  Water 
Works  Service";  "Progress  in  Adoption  of  the  National  Standard 
Hose  Coupling  and  Hydrant  Fittings  for  Public  Fire  Service"; 
"Laying  Water  Mains  Under  Streams,  or  How  We  Crossed  Two 
Streams  with  Ward  Pipe  at  Rome,  Ga.";  "Electrolysis  from  Stray 
Electric  Currents";  "Water  Softening  at  Owensboro,  Ky."; 
"Chlorination  at  Cleveland,  Ohio";  "Hypochlorite  Sterilization 
at  Kansas  City.  Mo.";  "The  Cost  of  Leaks:  Does  it  Pay  to  Stop 
Them?"  "Methods  and  Costs  of  a  Leakage  Survey  at  Lancaster, 
Pa.";  "To  What  Degree  Must  Sewage  be  Purified?"  "Phenom- 
enal Growth  of  the  Water  Works  of  Edmonton,  Alta.";  "Ice 
Troubles  at  Buffalo";  "A  Method  of  Increasing  the  Depth  of  a 
Large  Wooden  Settling  Tank";  "A  Reliable  Presumptive  Quanti- 
tative Test  for  B.  Coli";  "Forty-Eight-Inch  Wood  Stave  Force 
Main  Built  for  the  Water  Department  of  Atlantic  City."  Much 
discussion  of  these  and   other  topics  is  given. 

Don,  John,  F.  I.  C,  A.  M.  I.  Mech.  E.,  and 

Chisholm,  John,  A.  M.  I.  Mech.  E. 

Modern  Methods  of  Water  Purification.  191 1.  368 
pp.     Illustrated.  $4.38 

The  authors  of  this  volume  have  done  considerable  experi- 
mental work  in  the  purification  of  water,  and  are  familiar  with 
many  of  the  most  important  plants  in  England  and  other  coun- 
tries. They  make  use  of  the  work  of  eminent  authorities,  be- 
sides dealing  in  detail  with  their  personal  knowledge  of  the  most 
modern  methods  of  securing  a  pure  water  supply.  The  particular 
service  of  the  book  is  to  the  technical  man  whose  mind  is  trained 
to  understand  the  processes  and  apparatus  involved. 

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WA  TER  SUP  PL  Y— Continued 

Goodell,  John. 

Water  Works  for  Small  Cities  and  Towns.    1899. 
281  pp.    Illustrated.  $2.00 

Excellent  material  on  water,  dams,  reservoirs,  pumps,  etc.,  for 
small  plants. 

Hague,  Charles  Arthur. 

Pumping  Engines  for  Water  Works.     1907.    372 

pp.    141  illustrations.  $5.00 

Contents:  The  Pumping  Station;  Historical;  Economic  Steam 
Duty;  The  Advent  of  Triple  Expansion;  The  Mariotte  Curve; 
Steam  Jackets;  Coal  Duty  of  Pumping  Engines;  Actual  Condi- 
tions of  Pumping;  The  Worthington  Duplex  Pumping  Engine; 
The  Holly  Quadruplex  Pumping  Engine;  The  Gaskill  Pumping 
Engine;  The  Reynolds  Triple- Expansion  Pumping  Engine;  Va- 
rious Types  and  Classes;  Pumping  Engines  Adapted  to  Condi- 
tions; Installation  of  Pumping  Engines;  Investment  Value  of 
Pumping  Engines;  Suction  Lift  and  Suction  Pipes;  Water 
Passages  and  Water  Valves;  The  Water  Plungers;  Air  Chambers; 
Steam  Piston;  Steam  Cylinders;  Cross  Heads;  Frames  and  Bed 
Plates;  Material  for  Pumping  Engines;  Duty  Tests  of  Pumping 
Engines 

Hazen,  Allen. 

Clean  Water  and  How  to  Get  It.    1907.    vi  -f  178 
pp.     14  full-page  illustrations.  $1.50 

Treating  of  the  purity  of  water  from  various  sources,  of  water 
purification  by  various  means,  and  of  the  financial  management  of 
publicly  owned  waterworks.  , 

Hazlehurst,  J.  N.,  Member  of  the  American  Society 

of   Civil    Engineers ;    Member    of   the   Louisiana 

Engineering  Society. 

Towers  and  Tanks  for  Water  Works.     1907.    x 

+  325  PP-    61  illustrations.  $2.50 

The  theory  and  practice  of  their  design  and  construction. 

Hubbard,  Winfred  D.,  and 
Kiersted,  Wynkoop. 

Water    Works    Management    and    Maintenance. 

1907.    vi  +  429  PP-     132  illustrations.  $4.00 

Contents. — Part  I — On  the  Methods  and  Principles  of  De- 
veloping, Improving  and  Storing  Water  Supplies:  Ground- Water 
Supply;  River-Water  Supply;  Pumping  Engines;  Impounded  Sup- 
plies. PartH — Maintenance  and  Operation:  Plans  and  Records; 
Extensions;  Service  Connections;  Meters;  Care  of  Appurte- 
nances; Alterations  and  Repairs;  Maintenance  of  Quality;  Water 
Waste;  Electrolysis;  Fire  Protection;  Accounts;  Financial  Man- 
agement; Rules  and  Regulations;  Annual  Reports.  Part  III — 
Franchise:    Water  Rates;  Depreciation. 

Mathews,  John  L. 

The  Conservation  of  Water.     1910.     viii  -f-  289 
illustrations.  $2.15 

The  chapters  comprise:  Water  as  a  Resource;  Floods  and 
Flood  Prevention;  Storage;  Municipal  Supply  and  the  Purifica- 
tion of  Rivers;  Water  Power;  The  Mining  of  the  White  Coal; 
Water  Power  in  National  Development;  Swamp  Drainage;  Irri- 
gation; Conservation  of  the  Soil;  Navigation;  The  Results  of  the 
Conservation  of  Water. 

Turneaure,  F.  E.,  Q.  E.,  Professor  of  Bridge  and  Sani- 
tary Engineering,  University  of  Wisconsin,  and 
Russell,  H.  L.,  Ph.  D.,  Professor  of  Bacteriology,  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin. 
Public  Water  Supplies.    With  a  chapter  on  Pump- 
ing Machinery  by  D.  W.  Mead,  C.  K,     191 1.     xv 
-f-  808  pp.    229  illustrations.  $5.00 

Under  Requirements  and  Resources,  this  volume  treats  of  the 
quantity  of  water  required,  the  sources  of  supply  and  the  quality 
of  water  supplies.  Under  the  Construction  of  Water  Works  it 
treats  of  works  for  the  collection,  the  purification  and  distribution 
of  water. 

Turneaure,  Frederick  E. 

Water  Supply.    160  pp.    45  illustrations.  $1.00 

A  compendium  for  sanitary  and  waterworks  engineers  and  all 
interested  in  matters  affecting  public  health.  This  work  coven 
the  entire  field  of  water  supply  and  consumption,  construction  of 
wells,  reservoirs,  dams,  conduits,  pipe  lines,  drainage  systems, 
filtering  and  purification  plants,  etc. 
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WATER    SUPPLY,    Cont.— WOMAN'S    GWtC    WORK 

Whipple,  George  C. 
The  Value  of  Pure  Water. 

1907.    viii  4"  84  pages.  $1.00 

Contents. — Introduction;  Pure  and  Wholesome  Water;  Sani- 
tary Qualities;  Attractiveness;  Hardness;  Temperature;  Summary 
of  Formulas;  Application  of  Formulae;  Effect  of  Contamination; 
Effect  of  Turbidity,  Color  and  Odor;  Effect  of  Hardness;  Bene- 
fits of  Filtration;  Sanitary  Quality;  Physical  Quality;  Water- 
Softening;  Cost  of  Filtration;  Summary;  Pure  and  Wholesome 
Water;  Difficulty  in  Defining-  Epithets  Especially  Applicable  to 
Waters  in  a  Natural  State;  Epithets  Applicable  to  Water  with 
Artificial  Substances  Admixed;  The  Disadvantages  of  Hard 
Water;  Hard  Waters;  Use  of  Hard  Water  in  the  Household; 
Use  of  Hard  Water  in  the  Industry;  Use  of  Hard  Water  in 
Steam-making;  Financial  Loss  from  the  Use  of  Hard  Boiler 
Water. 


Women's   Civic  Work 

See  also  Social  Research  and  Service 

Allen,  William  H.,  Director  of  the  Bureau  of  Munici- 
pal Research,  New  York  City. 
Woman's    Part    in    Government    Whether    She 
Votes  or  Not.     1912.    xv  -f-  377  pp.  $1.62 

At  this  time,  while  Woman  Suffrage  is  a  burning  question,  Dr. 
Allen's  book  on  the  place  that  woman  can  occupy  in  our  govern- 
ment, whether  or  not  she  possesses  the  right  to  use  the  ballot,  is  of 
unusual  timeliness  and  importance.  Suffragists  and  "Antis"  alike 
will  find  here  food  for  thought.  And  serious-minded  women,  and 
men  as  well,  will  be  surprised  at  the  extent  of  the  power  for 
good  government  which  women  possess,  whenever  they  choose  to 
exercise  their  rights  as  citizens. 

The  Civics  Society,  Chicago. 

The  Woman   Citizen's   Library.     1913.     12  vols. 
Over  3,000  pp.    Illustrated.  $19.50 

More  than  50  expert  authorities  have  contributed  in  the  pro- 
duction of  this  work.  It  contains  courses  of  reading  in  political 
science,  practical  politics,  municipal  government,  woman  suf- 
frage, laws  of  the  states  affecting  women;  also  on  social  sub- 
jects:— child  labor,  juvenile  protection,  prevention  of  vice, 
eugenics,  public  health,  factory  inspection,  public  recreation, 
schools,  immigration,  trade  unionism,  budget-making,  City  Beauti- 
ful, peace  and  arbitration,  etc.  The  aim  has  been  not  only  to 
furnish  scientifically  sound  instruction  on  these  pressing  prob- 
lems and  present  conditions,  but  to  show  how  to  organize  and 
what  to  do  to  secure  needed  reforms.  To  members  of  suffrage 
associations,  women's  clubs,  settlement  and  social  workers,  teach- 
ers, and  every  woman  interested  in  the  preservation  of  the  home 
and  in  public  welfare,  this  Library  is  valuable. 

Coolidge,  Mary  Roberts. 

Why  Women  Are  So.    1912.    viii  -f-  37i  pp.     $1.62 

This  book,  dedicated  to  the  new  men  "who  set  human  quality 
above  femininity  in  women,"  is  a  study  of  the  domestic  type  that 
has  been  produced  by  the  sex-traditions  of  the  past,  showing  the 
effect  which  these  traditions  have  had  upon  the  "temperament," 
physique,  occupations  and  interests  of  women.  The  author  traces 
finally  the_  passing  from  femininity  to  womanhood — to  the  larger 
life  and  citizenship. 

Dorr,  Rheta  Childe. 

What    Eight    Million    Women    Want.      339   pp. 

Many  illustrations.  $2.20 

"Woman's  place  is  home.  Home  is  the  community.  The  city 
full  of  people  is  the"  family."  This  is  the  theme  of  this  volume, 
an  interpretation  of  the  collective  opinion  of  women,  which, 
through  fhe  activities  of  the  women  who  have  consciously  or- 
ganized themselves  into  clubs  and  associations  for  the  purpose  of 
self-improvement  and  civic  betterment  in  every  way,  is  receiving 
expression  for  the  first  time  since  the^fcld  began.  Emphatically 
the  book  is  not  a  discussion  of  the  sifKKec  question;  far  broader 
than  that,  it  is  a  detailed  statement  (HRie  things  that  effective 
women  are  doing  and  thinking  in  the  world  to-day. 

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WOAf&WS    CIVIC    WORK- -Continued 

Key,  Ellen. 

The  Woman  Movement. 

1912.    xvii  -{-  224  pp.  $1.60 

Translated  by  Mamah  Bouton  Borthwick;  with  an  introduction 
by  Havelock  Ellis.  This  volume  is  not  a  history  of  the  woman 
movement,  but  a  statement  of  what  Ellen  Key  considers  to  be  the 
new  phase  it  is  now  entering  on,  a  phase  in  which  the  claim  to 
exert  the  rights  and  functions  of  men  is  less  important  than  the 
claims  of  woman's  rights  as  the  mother  and  educator  of  the 
coming   generation. 

SCHIRMACHER,  Dr.  KaETHE. 

The  Modern  Woman's  Rights  Movement.  Trans- 
lated from  the  second  German  edition  by  Carl  Con- 
rad Eckhardt,  Ph.  D.,  Instructor  in  History  in  the 
University  of  Colorado.     1912.    280  pp.  $1.62 

In  this  thorough  and  authoritative  historical  account  of  the 
modern  woman's  rights  movement  of  all  the  countries  of  the 
world,  the  general  reader  is  put  into  possession  of  a  vast  amount 
of  material  that  has  not  hitherto  been  collated.  Woman's  effort 
and  achievement  in  educational,  professional,  industrial,  political, 
moral  and  sociological  fields  are  all  considered,  the  latest  facts 
being  included  by  the  author. 

Tarbell,  Ida  M. 

The  Business  of  Being  a  Woman.  1912.  ix  -f 
242  pp.  $1.33 

Miss  Tarbell  says: 

"Learning,  business  careers,  political  and  industrial  activities — 
none  of  these  things  is  more  than  incidental  in  the  national  task 
of  woman.  Her  great  task  is  to  prepare  the  citizen.  The 
citizen  is  not  prepared  by  a  training  in  practical  politics.  Some- 
thing more  fundamental  is  required.  The  meaning  of  honor  and 
of  the  sanctity  of  one's  word,  the  understanding  of  the  principles 
of  democracy  and  of  the  society  in  which  we  live,  the  love  of 
humanity  and  the  desire  to  serve — these  are  what  make  a  good 
citizen.  The  tools  for  preparing  herself  to  give  this  training 
are  in  the  woman's  hands.  It  calls  for  education,  and  the  nation 
has  provided  it.  It  calls  for  freedom  of  movement  and  expres- 
sion, and  she  has  them.  It  calls  for  ability  to  organize,  to  dis- 
cuss problems,  to  work  for  whatever  changes  are  essential.  She 
is  developing  this  ability.  It  may  be  that  it  calls  for  the  vote. 
I  do  not  myself  see  this,  but  it  is  certain  that  she  will  have  the 
vote  as  soon  as  not  a  majority,  but  an  approximate  half,  not  of 
men — but  of  women — feel  the  need  of  it." 

Education  Committee,  Wisconsin  Woman's  Suffrage 
Association. 
Social    Forces.      A    Topical    Outline,    witih    Bib- 
liography.    1913.     83  pp.  15  cents 

A  booklet  of  practical  suggestions  for  education  in  the  duties 
and  responsibilities  of  citizenship,  designed  as  an  outline  of  study 
for  suffrage  organizations  and  civic  leagues.  It  gives  (1)  a  list 
of  one-ray  programs  on  civic  and  social  topics;  (2)  an  outline  of 
seventy  or  eighty  topics,  with  numerous  sub-topics,  arranged  un- 
der ten  general  divisions,  with  bibliography  and  other  material 
-.mder  each  topic,  each  of  these  topics  being  designed  to  occupy 
at  least  one  club  session;  (3)  the  introduction  into  the  public 
schools  of  instruction  and  training  in  citizenship  and  morals. 
Under  each  division  of  the  second  section  is  given  a  list  of  per- 
sons prominent  in  carrying  on  the  work  outlined  in  that  divi- 
sion, followed  by  a  list  of  things  which  clubs  and  individuals  can 
do  to  carry  out  that  particular  work.  The  book  is  not  intended 
as  a  year  book,  but  presents  a  course  of  study  which  should  ex- 
tend over  several  years. 


Selected   List 


of 


Municipal   and   Civic    Books 


Baths  and  Swimming  Pools,  Public 

Cross,  Alfred  W. 

Public   Baths   and   Wash-Houses.     281    pp.     274 

illustrations.      (Published  in  England.)  $7.50 

A  treatise  on  their  planning,  design,  arrangement  and  fitting, 
with  chapters  on  Turkish,  Russian  and  other  special  baths. 

Gerhard,  William  Paul,  C.  E. 

Modern  Baths  and  Bath  Houses,    xvi  -+-  311  pp. 

130   illustrations.  $3«<x> 

Besides  a  general  discussion  of  baths  and  bathing,  all  the  dif- 
ferent kinds  of  baths  are  described,  both  public  and  private. 
There  is  a  chapter  on  the  water  supply  and  plumbing  of  bath 
houses,  containing  specifications  for  a  municipal  bath  house. 

Hanger,  G.  W.  W. 

Public  Baths  in  the  United  States.     (In  Labor 
Bulletin,  No.  54,  1904.)     123  pp.   Illustrated.      $1.00 

Reports  of  municipal  and  non-municipal  baths  in  many  places, 
with  numerous  views   and   plans. 


Billboards  and  Signs 

The  Civic  League  of  St.  Louis. 

Billboard  Advertising  in  St.  Louis.  1910.  40  pp. 
Illustrated.  10  cents 

Report  of  the  Signs  and  Billboards  Committee  of  the  Civic 
League.  Showing  the  difficulties  in  the  way  of  desirable  legal 
restrictions  on  billboard  advertising,  in  order  to  indicate  the 
gradual  growth  of  judicial  and  public  opinion  in  many  places  in 
regard  to  this  method  of  publicity,  and  to  point  out  the  various 
means  by  which  an  effective  campaign  can  be  carried  on  against 
signs  and  billboards. 

Fosdick,  Raymond  B.,  Commissioner  of  Accounts,  New 
York  City. 
An     Investigation     of     Billboard     Advertising. 
August  27,  1912.    39  pp.    Illustrated.  10  cents 

Showing  the  extent  of  billboard  advertising  in  the  city  of  New 
York;  the  legal  control  of  billboards  and  sky  signs;  violations  of 
the  law;  the  classes  of  advertisements  displayed;  the  necessity  for 
regulation.  This  report  is  of  interest  to  other  cities,  especially 
on  account  of  its  review  of  court  decisions  regarding  billboards 
in  various  places,  and  also  because  of  its  information  on  methods 
3f  regulation  for  the  control  of  billboard  advertising  in  American 
and  foreign  cities.  Tentative  suggestions  for  a  new  ordinance 
n  New  York  on  this  matter  are  given. 

New  York  City. 

Report  of  the  Mayor's  Billboard  Advertising 
Commission.  August  i,  1913.  151  pp.  Illus- 
trated. 10  cents 

Containing  a  summary  of  the  work  of  the  Commission  and 
seventeen  recommendations,  also  a  general  review  of  the  extent 
)f  the  outdoor  advertising  business,  and  a  detailed  consideration 
of  the  arguments  covering  recommendations  on  the  following 
mases  of  the  billboard  problem:  Esthetics  and  the  Constitution; 
mblic  health  and  morality;  public  safety;  transit  line  conditions; 
idministrative  machinery;  local  option;  regulation  by  taxation. 
Municipal  regulations  in  New  York  and  other  American  cities  are 
[iven,  also  state  regulation  in  New  York,  Connecticut,  Massachu- 
;etts  and  Ohio,  and  regulations  in  England,  France,  Germany, 
Belgium  and  South  American  cities.     Proposed  ordinances,  a  pro- 


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BRIDGES 

posed  statute  and  constitutional  amendment  are  given,  embodying 
recommendations  of  the  report,  and  there  is  a  statement  of  ex- 
isting statutes  and  ordinances  to  be  considered  in  drafting  new 
regulations  for  New  York  City.  The  illustrations  include  views 
of  actual  billboard  conditions  in  New  York  City,  also  three  typical 
street   advertising    structures    abroad. 


Bridges,   Culverts  and    Viaducts 

Ketchum,   Milo   S.,    Dean   of    College   of  Engineering 
and  Professor  of  Civil  Engineering,  University  of 
Colorado. 
The  Design  of  Highway  Bridges  and  the  Calcu- 
lation of  Stresses  in  Bridge  Trusses.    1908.  540  pp. 
300  illustrations,  8  folding  plates,  Jj  tables.        $4.00 
It    aims   to    give    a  brief  course    in   the  calculation    of  stresses 
in   bridge   trusses   due   to  uniform   loads  and  concentrated  engine 
loads,   following   which    is   a   systematic   discussion   of   the    details 
and    design    of   highway   bridges.      It   covers    the    design   of    steel, 
masonry,  reinforced  concrete  and  timber  bridges,  and  includes  the 
design  of  the  abutments  as  well  as  the  superstructures. 

Moorefield,  Charles  H.,  Highway  Engineer,  Office  of 
Public  Roads. 
Data  for  Use  in  Designing  Culverts  and  Short- 
Span  Bridges.     (Bulletin  No.  45  of  the  Office  of 
Public  Roads.)    1913.   39  pp.   Illustrated.      15  cents 

Designed  for  engineers  and  experienced  foremen. 

Department  of  Bridges,  City  of  New  York. 

Annual  Report,  Year  Ending  December  31,  1912. 

Embracing  a  summary  of  reports  for  years  1905- 
1912,  inclusive.  357  pp.  Many  views  and  dia- 
grams. 10  cents 

In  submitting  the  report,  Commissioner  Arthur  J.  O'Keefe  says: 
"In  addition  to  the  purely  official  report  of  the  Commissioner  of 
Bridges,  other  information  is  given,  partly  of  general  and  popular 
interest,  and  partly  of  a  more  technical  nature,  of  value  to  the 
engineering  profession  at  large,  which  looks  to  this  department 
for  information  on  the  specialty  of  large  bridges,  as  well  as  for 
current  results  of  experience  with  smaller  bridges.  Special  atten- 
tion is  called  to  the  illustrations  and  descriptions  of  the  proposed 
architectural  and  traffic  developments  of  the  terminals  of  the  four 
great  East  River  bridges,  not  only  on  account  of  their  great  prac- 
tical value,  but  also  for  their  artistic  dignity  and  beauty  as  pait 
of  an  architectural  development  worthy  of  a  world's  capital." 

Tyrrell,  Henry  Grattan,  C.  E. 

Artistic  Bridge  Design.  (With  an  Introduction 
by  Thomas  Hastings,  of  Carrere  &  Hastings,  archi- 
tects.) 1912.  xvi  -f-  294  pp.  242  illustrations  $3.00 
The  artistic  element  of  bridge  design  is  emphasized  in  this  book, 
together  with  the  need  of  cooperation  between  engineers  and 
architects  in  the  construction  of  bridges,  which  are  conspicuous 
and  interesting  features  of  the  landscape.  The  basis  of  the 
volume  is  a  series  of  articles  by  the  author  on  ornamental  bridge 
construction,  published  in  The  American  Architect  in  1901.  The 
illustrations,  with  their  descriptions,  are  a  valuable  part  of  the 
book.  The  subject  matter  is  given  under  the  following  heads: 
Importance  of  Bridges;  Reasons  for  Art  in  Bridges;  Standards  of 
Art  in  Bridges;  Causes  for  Lack  of  Art;  Special  Features  of 
Bridges;  Principles  of  Design;  Ordinary  Steel  Structures;  Canti- 
lever Bridges;  Metal  Arches;  Suspension  Bridges;  Masonry 
Bridges.  The  author  states  the  requirements  for  beauty  and  gives 
examples  of  the  application  and  of  the  lack  of  these  requirements. 
The  use  of  the  arch  is  recommended  in  artistic  treatment.  Pier 
and  abutment  design  are  discussed,  and  attention  is  given  to 
viaducts  and  to  small  bridges,  as  well  as  to  larger  structures. 
The  book  is  not  merely  critical,  it  is  constructive. 

Tyrrell,  Henry  Grattan. 

Concrete  Bridges  and  Culverts.  For  both  Rail- 
roads and  Highways.  1909.  272  pp.  66  illustra- 
tions. $3.00 

The  subject  is  presented  in  the  simplest  possible  manner,  mathe- 
matical formula;  being  omitted  as  far  as  practicable.  Only  such 
material  is  given  as  is  directly  required  in  the  design  and  con 
struction    of   ordinary    concrete    or   masonry   arches,    in    order    to 


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Organization. 

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New  York. 

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Park  Superintendents. 

Nelson  P.  Lewis,  Chief  Engineer,  Board  of  Estimate 
and  Apportionment,  New  York. 

Sam  A.  Lewisohn,  Treasurer,  Municipal  Government 
Association   of  New   York   State. 

J.  Horace  McFarland,  President,  American  Civic 
Association. 

Le  Grand  Powers,  Chief  Statistician,  Bureau  of  the 
Census,  Washington,  D.  C. 

William  Jay  Schieffelin,  Chairman,  Citizens' 
Union,  New  York. 

George  C.  Whipple,  Professor  of  Sanitary  Engineer- 
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Delos  F.  Wilcox,  Franchise  Expert,  New  York. 


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